Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
Pay attention. Adultery is a court martial offense. Particularly if it is with another soldier's wifey.
Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
Since when is it military policy to dictate what is moral or immoral?
They are just order followers, not policy makers....
Military has zero business commenting on what is moral...
Ban adultery?
ROTFLMAO....
As if some married soldiers in Iraq ain't getting some trim from some local wearing a veil...and as if their superiors are turning them in....
You continue to crack me up...
Quote from traderNik:
It is their 'policy' that homosexuality is immoral? Hmmm... that's an interesting sentence. 'Policy' refers to actions and regulations. So do you mean that homosexual activity is overtly banned in the military, as in there is a policy statement which says "Soldiers will not engage in sexual acts with member of the same sex"? If this is so, could you provide a link?
I assume you didn't mean that it is the 'opinion' of many generals or the majority of officers that homosexuality is immoral, because that wouldn't necessarily be relevant here.
Quote from bigarrow:
Your funny. I wasn't aware of the don't don't ask, don't tell rule on adultry LOL. A lot of bible thumpers think according to the bible a blow job from the wife is immoral. Is there a don't ask don't tell rule on blow jobs too? Isn't screwing your wife in the butt also sodomy? Is there a don't ask don't tell rule on man on woman sodomy? Using the lords name in vain is also immoral is that covered in the don't ask don't tell rules also? Patton wouldn't be able to pass the test, wasn't goddamn a common phrase of his, immoral as it is, was. You know your wrong don't you.
"don't ask, don't tell' doesn't mean anything like 'The army's public position is that homosexuality is immoral'.Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
That is what they call the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The "don't tell" part includes not only "telling" but also doing homosexual activity.
It's easy enough to look up if you don't believe me or want more information. I think they describe it in general terms in the article about this general.
Again, I would ask you to provide a link to substantiate this assertion. It's not that I 'don't believe you' (am calling you a liar), it's just that I had a strongly held belief that the Army had stopped short of morally condemning homosexuality as a matter of policy and I want to see where they do, if they do.Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
You may think homosexual activity [is] acceptable, but it was the judgment of the military that [it is] not.
Quote from traderNik:
"don't ask, don't tell' doesn't mean anything like 'The army's public position is that homosexuality is immoral'.
The don't tell part might implicitly mean 'don't do or you could face some unofficial harassment', but it doesn't officially mean don't do. The best you can say is that the Army would strongly prefer if its member do not engage in homosexual activity.
Again, I would ask you to provide a link to substantiate this assertion. It's not that I 'don't believe you' (am calling you a liar), it's just that I had a strongly held belief that the Army had stopped short of morally condemning homosexuality as a matter of policy and I want to see where they do, if they do.
There is nothing in 'Don't ask, don't tell' that says that homosexuality is immoral. If they thought it were immoral they would ban homosexuals from the army.
Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:
As under 10 U.S.C. 654(b) the practice or admission of homosexuality is reason for discharge. Period.
"Sexual orientation will not be a bar to service unless manifested by homosexual conduct. The military will discharge members who engage in homosexual conduct, which is defined as a homosexual act, a statement that the member is homosexual or bisexual, or a marriage or attempted marriage to someone of the same gender." â quoted in "The Pentagon's New Policy Guidelines on Homosexuals in the Military", The New York Times (July 20, 1993), p.A14.