First Gay Arabic Linguist Fired from Military for Coming Out

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Ooooooh the mudane madame steps in. Heh heh, for back-up. Lot O spare time on yo hands heh?

Arctic pirate erotica! Fvckin Nunavutian #######!

[pedroh 21]

Ooooooh the mudane madame steps in. Heh heh, for back-up. Lot O spare time on yo hands heh?

Arctic pirate erotica! Fvckin Nunavutian #######!

:rofl:

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Careful! Tuh much interpetting mite makes yuz turn geyz tuh!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Ooooooh the mudane madame steps in. Heh heh, for back-up. Lot O spare time on yo hands heh?

Arctic pirate erotica! Fvckin Nunavutian #######!

I had to look that one up.

[almaty 19]

my son went to school for a 1 1/2 years at Presidio....and there was no one kicked out in any of the language schools except for not achieving ...

[Nessa 23]

sinner

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The military only does this because it accepts and endorses the fact that there are prejudiced individuals in the armed forces and that the prescence of gay people will cause dissention and damage discipline.

The "trust" argument about whether or not soldiers would want to be in a foxhole with someone they knew to be gay, is fair proof of that.

"They make me uncomfortable" is only true if you're a bigot.

Clearly the military is not an equal opportunity employer.

Edited May 8, 2009 by Private Pike

[Danno 1,228]

Clearly the military is not an equal opportunity employer.

Are you serious?

If the military were an equal op employer, there would be desk jobs for people in Wheel chairs, Overweight truck drivers, Gays with lisps and 5' tall aircraft mechanics.

BUt the military is unique...... and uniform for a reason.

Edited May 8, 2009 by Danno

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

my son went to school for a 1 1/2 years at Presidio....and there was no one kicked out in any of the language schools except for not achieving ...

Not everybody that goes there is gay. Probably a small percentage. With that qualification so that those Special Forces types and Navy Criptographer types I met and still know do not beat my #### to a pulp, since they all studied there at one time, or another, let me post this blurb:

Which makes it all the more shocking that, in a two-month period this fall, the Defense Language Institute (DLI) -an elite training school for military linguists in Monterey, California- discharged seven fully competent Arabic linguists. The reason? They were discovered to be gay.

DLI is a language-training center run by the Army but soldiers from all major military branches study there. Because of its battery of entrance tests and the intensity of its courses, DLI is reputed to attract students who are older and more skilled than most enlisted personnel. Its Northern California location also, it seems, attracts a large share of gay students. "There were way too many gay people at DLI for anybody to fear the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy," says one gay former student who arrived at DLI in 2001. While there, he was out to all his gay peers and to any enlisted personnel who seemed gay-friendly. "Nobody cared," he explains. "I knew someone who was a flaming queen in a uniform, and nobody cared. Sometimes we lived on halls that were more than 50 percent homosexualI never even got a sideways glance."

http://www.palmcenter.org/node/412

Like I said, it's no big secret.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Indeed, a moronic policy. Does it surprise me? No, not really.

p.s. Presidio is a damn good school, btw.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Clearly the military is not an equal opportunity employer.

Are you serious?

If the military were an equal op employer, there would be desk jobs for people in Wheel chairs, Overweight truck drivers, Gays with lisps and 5' tall aircraft mechanics.

BUt the military is unique...... and uniform for a reason.

I'm not understanding the objection to gays in the military, nor the comparison to the wheelchair bound or the morbidly obese.

I'm saying that on the issue of homosexuals serving in the military, that the military accepts and by its actions endorses prejudice. Its not hard to understand.

[Nagishkaw 510]

0f course they fired him. A cunning linguist he was not.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

0f course they fired him. A cunning linguist he was not.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Clearly the military is not an equal opportunity employer.

Are you serious?

If the military were an equal op employer, there would be desk jobs for people in Wheel chairs, Overweight truck drivers, Gays with lisps and 5' tall aircraft mechanics.

BUt the military is unique...... and uniform for a reason.

I'm not understanding the objection to gays in the military, nor the comparison to the wheelchair bound or the morbidly obese.

I'm saying that on the issue of homosexuals serving in the military, that the military accepts and by its actions endorses prejudice. Its not hard to understand.

It is probably a social adjustment that is well on its way to coming to completion. With men in close quarters, one of the phobias that needs to be overcome is homophobia, not just the fear of gays, but the fear that deep inside, someone might be gay and not know it. The military uses certain drills to make fear of the drill instructor greater that the fear of manly love.

Perhaps as society in general gives less concern to the issue, then the phobia might subside. But the theory, at least for now, is that if you can keep it to yourself, then you are good to go.

That might as well be B.S., but from a military standpoint, that is how is stands now. They say that any flaming activity is prohibited, straight, or gay, but common sense observations tell you that is not true, if you enter any off base club catering to the military.

0f course they fired him. A cunning linguist he was not.

How do you know he was not bisexual?

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