CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — The Defense Department on Thursday announced it is allowing service members to march in uniform in a gay pride parade for the first time in U.S. history.
In a memorandum sent to all its branches, the department said it was making the allowance for San Diego’s gay pride parade on Saturday even though its policy generally bars troops from marching in uniform in parades.
The Defense Department said it did so because organizers had encouraged military personnel to march in their uniform and the event was getting national attention.
The move came only weeks after the Pentagon joined the rest of the U.S. government for the first time in marking June as gay pride month and made an official salute to gay and lesbian service members.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta vowed in a video message to remove as many barriers as possible to making the military a model of equal opportunity and said gays and lesbians can be proud in uniform with the repeal last year of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law.
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It's a sad, sad day for this country….shameing the uniform that I wore for so many years…Damn near makes me want to throw up…..
Stop the insults with calling them gay. They are homosexuals and deserve that distinction. As for the military, we will pay for that experiment soon.
Boy oh, BOY! Theeagle, did you ever put it right! I too, am tired of insulting the word “Gay”! Gay means happy, glad, upbeat, as in joyful! Not to be Perverted, Perverts, An Abomonation, and ABnormal! I am sick to death of having this perversion of what should be a sacred union between a MAN AND A WOMAN shoved, rammed, and pushed down my throat! And being FORCED to accept it, because I DO NOT ACCEPT THINGS OF THIS NATURE BECAUSE THEY ARE WRONG WRONG WRONG AND WRONG-ER! And stop calling them something “nice”! They are NOT NICE! They are obnoxious, offensive and hateful..nasty and mean! They are everything that is the OPPOSITE OF happy and gay! What they are trying to do by using “nice” words to cover the evil that they SPREAD across the globe is so offensive to anyone with MORALS is “all kinds of wrong”!!!!!! If they want to live a perverted life, then go live it and shut up about it! We STRAIGHT and HETROSEXUAL people are NOT INTERESTED IN THEIR nasty, filthy, PERVERTED eeeeewwwww, “sex” lives!!!! If one thinks of it at all, it does make one want to puke, because it is just as I say…….eeeewwwwww. EEEEWWWWWW!!
Can't go to a political rally or fundraiser for your canidate in uniform? Can't start a facebook page that criticizes the POTUS, if your active duty? But you can put on your uniform and go march in a homosexual pride parade? I guess being homosexual and proud of it is more important than the exercise of the rest of our supposed 1st ammendmant rights!