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??Gays? in the military ? bad idea then, bad idea now?

By ADF Alliance Alert

Matt Barber writes at One News Now: "In general court-martial orders dated March 14, 1778, Washington, through his designs, addressed the disposition of a homosexual soldier 'tried for attempting to commit sodomy': '[We] do sentence him to be dismiss'd [from] the service with infamy. His Excellency the Commander in Chief approves the sentence and with abhorrence and detestation of such infamous crimes orders Lieutt. Enslin to be drummed out of camp tomorrow morning by all the drummers and fifers in the Army never to return.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 29, 2009 (boomark / email).