View Single Post
Old 12-02-2007, 02:26 PM   #4 (permalink)
The_Heretic
Master of Quill-Fu
 
The_Heretic's Avatar
 
Space Invaders Champion!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Taylorsville, UT [stuck in the 20th century].
Posts: 7,098
My Mood:
Blog Entries: 4
Thanks: 33
Thanked 131 Times in 98 Posts
The_Heretic is a famous PG member
Quote:
Originally Posted by jowey View Post
The speech should not have been interrupted once they allowed it.

I personally do not agree with homosexuality coming out of the closet for the military. This is based upon personal experience.

We were a small group in a compound in a foreign country. We were assigned apartments which we shared with a co-worker. There was stress involved in the living conditions. We had made some potato whiskey and watching a video of a new Star Trek movie in the apartment.

I had passed out and woke up when this guy unzipped me. I was pissed, I do not like being touched unless it is a she and then wonder about STD's. We had a discussion and I found out he was "bi", a bunch of emotional baggage which was fine by me but he had betrayed my trust. He was not a bad person, but in that situation, under those circumstances I could not trust him. In tight groups under hostile circumstances one does not want to have to deal with emotional baggage, or being groped because of insecurities.
Then the problem wasn't his sexual orientation, but a more basic principle of lacking respect for his fellow soldier. Most gays would keep to the same "hands off" courtesy as most heterosexuals.
__________________
"Enough!!" -so rang Barack Obama's voice off the walls of Mile High Stadium
The_Heretic is offline   Top Reply With Quote