Gay Airforce Sgt Discharged For Being Married

[Bulldog1948]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/15...test=latestnews

Anyone tried to read a marriage document through a window lately? Pleease. Sounds to me like the cops are feeling real proud of themselves right about now. What goes around comes around;doesn't it.

Mke

[Guest Kaitlyn88]

I'm actually surprised that the military couldn't figure out that she was married without having people in her house finding a marriage certificate. From what I was told when I was in the Army a gay marriage is reason for discharge, so it doesn't really matter how they found out. It's all so stupid though, they need to let gay people openly serve, and they need to give the same benefits to married gay couples.

[Guest Donna Jean]

Yeah, Mike...

Thanks for putting this up...

I read it this morning and I've been steamed about it all day!

Read it through the window?..PULeeeze!

Donna Jean

[Guest Steven22]

I like Kaitlyn am very surprised she didn't get caught by the service frankly, when I was in (a whoping 7 months ago) you had to take your marriage certificate to the base personnel resource department, I suppose you could skip that step and tell no one your married and live in non-govnt housing, but that's a pretty dangerous game still given the dadt policy is still in effect.

Unfortunate indeed the police outed her, she certainly wasn't the first to be outed by law enforcement but I do hope she is the last.

[Bulldog1948]

Yeah, Mike...

Thanks for putting this up...

I read it this morning and I've been steamed about it all day!

Read it through the window?..PULeeeze!

Donna Jean

Hey Dee Jay,

I like to put up articles of interest to our community. It's very important that we stay abreast of what the other side is up too. My personel feelings about those slimeball cops is that they should loose their jobs. The sgts., personel life was none of their biz.

I gotta laugh, cause if you and I woulda been in the same car going down the interstate, all anyone would've seen is blue-smoke rolling out the windows. lol I've been pretty steamed about this also.

[Guest T.K.]

I like Kaitlyn am very surprised she didn't get caught by the service frankly, when I was in (a whoping 7 months ago) you had to take your marriage certificate to the base personnel resource department, I suppose you could skip that step and tell no one your married and live in non-govnt housing, but that's a pretty dangerous game still given the dadt policy is still in effect.

I'm not really that surprised that the military didn't pull DADT on her until the police brought it out into the open. From what i've seen, whether or not DADT affects personnel depends largely on whether or not their chain of command choses to enforce it. Theoretically, they're supposed to kick out people who in violation of it, but i can say from personal experience that sometimes the command just doesn't care as long as you don't go shoving it down anyone's throat. I had a friend who was once actually caught in the act and our command just looked the other way.

In fact, in the past year, i know six people who were kicked out under DADT, and all of them personally handed in letters to our commanding officer to inform them that they were big ol' homos. And in truth, only three of them were actually gay or bisexual. On the other hand, i do have a friend who's currently in a position where if their command even suspected that they were gay, a witch hunt- er- "investigation" would be launched almost immediately. I, however, am lucky enough to know that even though i've never said anything about my sexuality or gender to my chain of command, most people either suspect or know and nobody is going to try to use it against me. The military is increasingly moving towards caring more about whether or not their people have valuable skills rather than who they're sleeping with.

So yeah. I'm not really that surprised. I don't know the fine details of the situation, but i'm willing to bet that people she worked with knew that she's gay. Heck, some probably even knew she'd gotten married. And probably nobody cared until the local police brought it out into the open.

[Guest Steven22]

i'm willing to bet that people she worked with knew that she's gay. Heck, some probably even knew she'd gotten married. And probably nobody cared until the local police brought it out into the open.

Touche'

[Guest Zabrak]

You know what GLBT not beign allowed in the army reminds me of? When gays couldn't be lawyers. I just learned about that a few days ago...this has the same logic as that did, pretty much. Just as much ignorance.