Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist.
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - An article "Army Homosexuals: Let Them Serve" created a firestorm of Pizzen controversy. My comments were that ANYONE who volunteers for the armed services should be allowed to serve. Homos (forgive the abbreviation) have been in all armies and all of civilization since time began. (Read your bible).
I'm in no way demeaning, or advocating or supporting the situation. I'm just stating facts as I see them.
If the services discharged 12,000, there were probably about that many they haven't discovered yet.
Examples of discrimination by "white normal Caucasians" are rife in American history. Blacks, Orientals, Native Americans and Hispanics have been discriminated against since the word GO, and women of every race have been discriminated against as well.
Discrimination for sexual orientation is really weird. Does anyone really think that a gay man or a lesbian wants that type of discrimination thrown at themselves?
I'm convinced they are born that way and there is probably nothing so devastating for a spouse to find out after 10 or 20 years of marriage that the spouse is/was really a closeted homosexual.
Religion has nothing to do with it. Whether priestly pedophiles are homos is up for grabs. They surely could be.
WAC's in WWII were considered by many G.I.'s to be lesbians. There certainly were some. One of the respondents to my article, Thomas, (I'm guessing he is a shrinkologist) berates me for my personal story that others of my six-man team of frontline scouts thought I was homosexual because I didn't smoke cigarettes. My guys smoked like chimneys to assert their manliness.
A sideline to this story is that severe prejudice doled out to the Japanese American 442nd Regiment, who were all volunteers and had to prove their patriotism. The 442nd was the most decorated Regiment in American war history.
Other examples of the discriminated are the all-black Tuskegee Airmen and the all-black 761st Tank Destroyer Battalion. They proved their valor "way above and beyond". It took several decades, but the tankers eventually got SIX Congressional Medals. The actions of the 761st Tank Battalion and the Tuskegee Airmen were among of the reasons why President Truman desegregated the military in 1948.
There are certainly Army homosexuals who proved their valor as real fighting men.
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