Several leaders of anti-gay groups held a press conference Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC., to voice support for maintaining the failed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on gays in the military.
The press conference coincided with the release of a report, “To Keep Our Honor Clean: Why We Must Oppose the Homosexual Agenda for the Military,” issued Wednesday by the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, a right-wing Catholic group.
The report claims that allowing gays to serve openly in the military will increase the rate of sexually transmitted diseases among the troops.
This increased disease rate has led some to refer to the homosexual lifestyle as a “deathstyle.” Inclusion of this deathstyle in our Armed Forces is a dangerous proposition, indeed.
You can read the report here; following is a clip from yesterday's press conference:
CPAC is the nation’s largest gathering of conservatives annually.
Along with its usual anti-gay presence, this year the gay conservative group GOProud is one of CPAC’s co-sponsors.
Filed under: Don't Ask Don't Tell, National Headlines
Now that's just being pathetic. Risk of STDs? I'd love to see the "research" to back that up. Why won't they just admit "We don't like gays" instead coming up with all of these braindead excuses. Oh, well I guess that would require being honest about themselves, which they are completely against apparently...
My uncle was dishonorably discharged after several years of good service while in a bar off duty with his partner. People who say the military was right to discharge him don't realize how many valuable troops they are losing because of this stupid, intolerant and outdated policy.
Any time they get called out about bogus facts they rely on, they just use another excuse.
Quite some time ago, they said it would be bad to have gays serving together, that it would be a distraction. Of course, heterosexual couples weren't allowed to server together in the same company during that same time. They couldn't simply make it the same policy across the board; just no gays.
Some time after that, they started allowing heterosexual couples to mingle and serve openly on aircraft carriers.
Please. Everyone knows that "deathstyle" was a word invented by James Hetfield for the Metallica song "Frantic." He should sue these homophobic assholes for copyright infringement.