Gay former Air Force officer testifies in lawsuit challenging ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy
By Julie Watson, APFriday, July 16, 2010
Ex-officer testifies in military gay policy trial
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A former Air Force officer who was discharged for being gay has taken the stand in the federal trial of a lawsuit challenging the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Former Maj. Mike Almy testified Friday that he was an award-winning communications officer who served alongside foreign forces that have openly gay members.
Almy says the gay troops were absolutely no detriment to the mission of his unit, which accepted them.
The lawsuit being heard by a U.S. District Court judge in Riverside, Calif., was brought by the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights organization.
The suit seeks an injunction to halt use of the policy.
The lawsuit puts the government in the position of defending the policy even as President Barack Obama is pushing Congress to repeal it.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Two military officers who were discharged because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy will testify during the federal trial of a lawsuit posing the biggest constitutional challenge in recent years to the military’s policy banning openly gay service members.
The lawsuit filed by the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights organization, seeks a federal injunction to immediately halt the policy.
The officers are expected to testify Friday in the case, which has put the Obama administration in the awkward position of defending a policy the president is pushing Congress to repeal.
More than 13,500 service members have been fired under “don’t ask, don’t tell” since 1994.
Mike Almy was dismissed after a routine computer search turned up personal e-mails he wrote while deployed in Iraq. After the e-mails were given to his commander, he was handed discharge papers marked “homosexual admission” as the reason
“Despite this treatment, my greatest desire is still to return to active duty as an officer and leader in the United States Air Force, protecting the freedoms of a nation that I love; freedoms that I myself was not allowed to enjoy while serving in the military,” Almy wrote in an April 26, 2010 letter to President Obama asking him to overturn the policy.
Jenny L. Kopfstein, a decorated Navy officer from San Diego who was discharged in 2002 after telling her commanding officer she was gay, was also expected to testify Friday during the trial.
Government attorneys say the issue should be decided by Congress and not in the federal courtroom in Riverside, Calif.
The U.S. House has voted to repeal the policy, and the Senate is expected to take up the issue this summer.
In deciding to hear the challenge, U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips said the “possibility that action by the legislative and executive branches will moot this case is sufficiently remote.”
The plaintiff’s attorney, Dan Woods argued the policy violates the rights of gay military members to free speech, due process and open association.
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” prohibits the military from asking about the sexual orientation of service members but requires discharge of those who acknowledge being gay or are discovered to be engaging in homosexual activity, even in the privacy of their own homes off base.
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July 21, 2010: 10:51 am
GAYS IN MILITARY AND MARRIGE Gay males and straight males have one thing in common, male aggression. Gay men are just as likely to be aggressive in their day to day functions as heterosexuals. It is a documentable fact of life, their desire for military service, gay priests that prey upon children, the “patient zero” types that actively seek multiple sex partners, MRSA stats show it. Patient Zero alone is considered the father of AIDS. Giving in to the gay movement will only boost their ego’s and encourages their growth. The Gay Hendrick Schons and Their Cult of Hungry Howlers Schon managed to deceive the scientific community for over two years with his bogus claims of organic computer chips. This was mainstream science and it should not have happened that long. So it has made me rethink about other branches of science. One in particular, was a recent story on the Gay Band of Thebes, which was being touted as a reason for openly gay service in today’s military. The claim is based on historical writing by Plutarch a Greek scholar and writer. The problem is, in comparison with life today, we would have a whole bee hive of media types to give us the real story. All we have is Plutarch and his story which would not have faired as well if the story was of cowardice before death,and if Plutarch wasn’t Greek. It is commonly known that if 100 people see a crime occurring, that there will be 100 different opinions about the appearance of the criminal and what actually happened. That the science of history is being served up dogmatically is for me a realization that there are more Hendrick Schons with an agenda of heinous proportions. THE SACRED BAND OF THEBES GAYS AND SLAVERY HOMOSEXUAL VAMPIRES ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD We are living in earth’s darkest hour, the years, months or weeks preceding Armageddon. Taking advantage of this horrific time, homosexual vampires are coming out of the closeted grave they have survived in for thousands of years. Using this cloud of darkness that is shrouding humanity the gay vampires are running amuck, sucking out the life blood of billions. The blood they drink isn’t real blood, but is the life force of thousands of years of culture, history, heritage, religion, and family. They have drained us all of a pint just with this gay marriage quest, and another with a gay military. As we approach world war the light of reason and sanity is fading from the minds of men who once would have not tolerated homosexual armies on the rise. Now normal men are confused by things like political correctness, technological advancement, diverse happenings, and overpopulation issues, they can’t fix their cell phones let alone understand global warming and gay marriage, and so they stand by idle not knowing what to do or say. COPYRIGHT VS GAY MARRIGE It’s truly sad and bizarre that we have copyright/ intellectual property laws that can protect a song and dance cartoon, but doesn’t guard the sanctity of our marriage ritual. Even with a thousand years of evidence and ownership that clearly demonstrates heterosexual monopoly by creation and invention the system fails us. Obviously we need to upgrade. THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE LETTER OF THE LAW VS THE MEANING OF THE LAW! Are gays the only group that perverts and mocks Gods #1 commandment “Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all your heart, and love your neighbor like yourself”? Probably not the only group, but the sure are at the top of the list. It’s pretty obvious the gays foul godliness and the wholesome life when they crack jokes about loving a neighbor in a gay way. It’s almost like they are looking to start a fight with normal people. Look at how they fouled the cowboy culture with their Brokeback Mountain movie. The American cowboy has been the backbone of right wing Christian heterosexual living for more than a century. The movie has probably only served one thing, an increase of violence between straight cowmen and gays. We will probably never know that stats on how many bar fights were caused because of that movie. Just the slightest provocation by someone that infers homosexuality will cause a fight, and the movie has only increased the likelihood of that factor. IT’S NOT HOMOPHOBE IT’S HOMOABOMINO The argument that other countries have gays serving openly in the military has been presented without any specifics. I’ve heard that in smaller countries the men train in the army during the day, and go home to sleep with mom and dad. America has the largest military in the world and should not be compared to the smaller countries. Some men training in the army barefoot and using dads old world war 2 rifle and happen to be gay is not a good argument for gays serving openly in the largest military in the world. 10-24-09 While we are at it let’s define exactly what kind of homosexual behavior should be permitted in the gay barracks. Will they be allowed to have oral and anal sex in the showers and barracks? What about more deviant types of gay sex, like feces and urine, and S&M? Gays are trying to pass themselves off as being intellectually superior because they claim to practice and endorse metrosexuality and bisexuality. In truth intellectually superior people are those that contribute to our modern technology by inventing and discovering and innovating. Bisexuality doesn’t even exist! It’s more lies from the gay left. The proof is in your own body and mind. You can only desire and lust after one gender, it’s the natural way we function. Bisexuality can only happen as an act of deliberation, concentration and meditation. They make themselves perform bisexual acts for whatever reason is conjured in the mind of the offender. This isn’t being intellectually superior, it’s just a con, usually by prostitutes and other criminal types. GAY MARRIAGE 10-15-09 The homosexual mafia is the largest and most unrecognized organized crime family in the world. They have the ability to transcend every way of life, race, religion, job, and family are all tainted by the gay underground. Lacking any fear of prison and encouraged by the knowledge they can overcome through attrition, extortion, lies and deceit, murder and mayhem the gay man is a monster in comparison to the mafias and street gangs we read about in the daily news. They live a secret life and even those in the “out”, celebrities, and working gays are despicable drug addicted alcoholics willing to bend to the will of anybody that professes allegiance to the gay cause, for the purpose of defending their sect. Gays may be hiding inside the real mafia or working at the FBI, they operate as doctors, lawyers and police officers, and they have one thing in common, a reason to defy the government, which is the protection of the gay world. GAYS DELIBERATELY SPREAD AIDS IN THE 80’S So why are we kissing up to these fiends? Give them gay marriage, openly serve in the military, etc is a travesty considering the probability they did spread AIDS on purpose. If you were around in the 80’s you’d remember the enormous amount of antigay activity. “homosexuality is at least as heinous as a crime as murder”. Because of world overpopulation problems the gay population is multiplying in greater numbers. We must be prepared to safeguard our future in a post apocalyptic world. When God returns he must not see us as a Caligula-ized society. The gays are using psychological warfare tactics to spread their cult. Every time they use innuendos to suggest some celebrity is gay, or they call you a homophobe, or they say that anybody over 30 years old that isn’t married is gay, is mind warfare. It’s part of their plan to convert us. Look at gay marriage; have you ever seen a gay couple that has been together 60 years? We have millions of hetro marriages that have lasted 40, 50, and 60 years, but there is probably not one gay couple in America that has lived together in a marriage lifestyle for 60 years. The demand for gay marriage is just part of their conquest plans. “Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within” Undisputed Truth. It means that our worst enemy is sometimes the one we don’t see. Homosexuality may be a greater enemy than the Taliban. We have fought religious wars for thousands of years, but the war against homosexuality may be something new that is emerging from overpopulation. CULTUSRELIGOHOMOSEXUALARMATADISEASE We can’t even find the right labels for these people. Individually they are not a cult, or a religion, or a disease, or an army. Combine them together and it appears to fit. The gay movement of today is a combination of cult, religion, army, and disease. Any one of them would set of alarms if it was some other group, but we just ignore any suggestion that gays are a cult or an army. So why doesn’t somebody invent or create a new designation for these people? They obviously embrace gayness as a cult/religion. It’s common knowledge many gays refer to us heterosexuals as “repressed homosexuals”. Supposedly we live in a world of fear, unable to loose the chains of oppression. Open up and accept their homosexuality as way to world peace, by sleeping with as many people as you can. As the gay movement grows they are easily implementing tactics that would be considered in some countries as psychological warfare. This “gay marriage” scheme is one such tactic. Gays have lived for thousands of years without marriage, so why all of a sudden are they looking for marriage? So they don’t have guns and rockets, you can still fight a war without, “the pen is mightier than the sword”. Edward Lytton. Gay Marriage is all about “flaunting”, looking for attention, jumping into the limelight, even if it is only for 15 minutes of fame, it is what the gay mind craves. In rebuttal the gays cite the high divorce rate among straights, totally disregarding the nature, decided by thousands of years of patterns, and a culture with a hyper-serious intent. The sanctity of marriage sits higher up than the basal understandings gays associate with. The mockery of our institution is as juvenile as being “mooned” by roadside hooligans. Links to homosexuality as a disease: 6-19-09 Is homosexuality a more heinous crime than murder? Are gays a greater enemy than the Taliban or Al Qaeda? If so, how can it be demonstrated? It looks like one answer is popularity/propaganda potentials that could elevate gay movement. If they became very popular homosexuality could become a cult or even a religion. The idea that we as a people can find peace happiness and prosperity, to live in a crime and war free world is possible if we all sleep and have sex together is not that farfetched of an idea that the gays would support. Is it why God destroyed Sodom, because the gays took over the government and had laws that required strangers and visitors to their cities to have sex with the people of Sodom in order to be accepted? Should we allow the homosexuals the opportunity to advance their cult/religion and create a popularity front that will draw our world’s youth to their cause? Fact: “In December 1973 this movement achieved a major victory when pressure groups succeeded in forcing the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses”. Safezone.slu.edu If you told a blind person or someone with kidney stones that their disease is a normal biological experience, and that they should accept and even learn to enjoy their disease, and not to seek a cure, you would more than likely get spit on. Homosexuals have used pressure tactics to force the APA to remove them from a disease status, is like the blind doing the same because they like their social security check more than sight. The difference is homosexuality is a perversion of deviant pleasure and being blind is not. They both are normal and natural biological occurrences, but being a common experience in nature doesn’t exclude them from being undesirable. Any desirability in homosexuality lies in the government’s unwillingness to lead and educate the people. It is a responsibility for parents that must be reinforced by the government to teach our nations youth that homosexuality is biologically wrong and is a disease in nature. If you take away the religion, what is left behind is pure biology, nature, evolution, and where does homosexuality stand then? It becomes a natural enemy of the heterosexual, a biological force of competition, a foreign army, a predator that one must protect from. ON GAY ADOPTION Gays have had thousands of years to fine tune a culture of deception. They have passed on from generation to generation the ability to hide their homosexuality from family, friends, church, and community and even the work place. The lies and deceit come automatically and mechanically, and is a function that allows this segment of the population to blend invisibly. Unless one has lived within the gay community (as one of their own) then you can never really be certain of the full extent of their culpability. MORE ON GAYS IN THE MILITARY Gays don’t enlist in the military because of a deep desire to serve their country. It’s more likely they are joining to try and bond in a predominately male environment. Some are possibly possessed with the intent of treason and to master the system undetected, so as to come out later and champion the gay liberation cause. It is clear they are not serving the purpose of honor and duty to their country. It’s pretty obvious that gays in the military do not lack male aggressive behavior. The idea that gays are timid and meek effeminate types isn’t not true to the cases we see and read about in the press, and is all the more evidence to not trust them. We have all seen or read of homosexuality in other species of animals. It’s acceptable behavior because they are lower animals. We know it’s wrong because in our simplest understanding of biology, sex is for the creation of new life. GAYS CLAIMING CIVIL WAR ERA TYPE DISCRIMINATION I can’t stand it! These homosexual degenerates claiming they are the same type of victims as the afro Americans were victims of slavery era racism, is outrageous. My own great great great grandfather was an abolitionist over one hundred years before the civil war. From the mid 1700’s to the civil war my upstate New York ancestors served the abolition movement and the Underground Railroad. It was because of their puritanical right wing conservative Christian values, not left wing homosexual degenerate liberalism that they fought to free the black slaves. GAY MALE AGGRESSION Don’t Ask Don’t Tell What a mistake giving gays this right. Gay males have one thing in common with straight males, and that is they are endowed with male aggression. The proof, gays seeking to join the military, gay priests that molest children, and patient zeroism. The straight male would find thousands of sex partners if he could, but the female acts as a counter balance and keeps the rate down. Aggressive gay males encounter other gay males and there is no stopping the sex, which is why patient zero is considered the father of the AIDS plague. MRSA is proof that AIDS didn’t teach the gay men a lesson. If gay men were not aggressive then AIDS might have not made it globally, it’s all about the growth rate and how gay male promiscuity accelerated the disease to the mainstream. Giving into gay activism is like enabling alcoholics THE WAR IN HEAVEN BETWEEN GOD, HIS ARMY VS THE HOMOSEXUALS It’s because gays have embraced their culture like a religion. They believe that world peace and harmony can be achieved thru “love” of their fellow man, and that can only be done with homosexual acts. Supernatural forces of evil are leading this cult to conquer, brain wash, and convert the straight world to homosexuality. We know that gay men are endowed with male aggression, and they use lies, cheating, stealing, and every trick in the book to force “change” on us. If they are given the inch they will take your children. This is psychological warfare tactics and anything else that can help them win and convert our nation’s youth. By SEWELL CHAN NY Times blog A survey of 452 New York City men who had had sex with other men within the past year found that 39 percent had not disclosed their sexual orientation to their doctors, a problem particularly acute among black, Hispanic and Asian men, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced on Wednesday. Health officials said the survey results had troubling implications for H.I.V. prevention. The survey found, for example, that men who disclosed their sexual activity with other men were twice as likely as men who did not to have been tested for H.I.V. (63 percent versus 36 percent). The survey found a striking distinction: While 78 percent of the men who had sex with men and identified themselves as homosexual said they had discussed their sexuality with their doctors, none of the men who had sex with men but identified themselves as bisexual had told their doctors. The survey also found wide racial and ethnic variation in disclosure rates. Sixty percent of black men who had sex with other men said they had not discussed their sex lives with their doctors, compared with 48 percent of Hispanic men, 47 percent of Asian men and 19 percent of white men. Other differences in disclosure were also observed. Men who were 28 or older were more like than younger men (69 percent vs. 52 percent) to be out to their providers. Those born in the United States were more likely than immigrant men to disclose their practices, and those who were better educated disclosed at higher rates than the less educated. Dr. Monica Sweeney, the assistant health commissioner for H.I.V. prevention and control, said the findings reflected a strong stigma against homosexuality in minority communities. (About three-quarters of the men in the survey who described themselves as bisexual were black and Hispanic.) “There is a frequent phenomenon in the black community in which a man who is gay, by the conventional ways that we all know to identify somebody as gay, identifies himself as bisexual,” Dr. Sweeney said, referring to the phenomenon known as the “down low.” The survey results published this month in The Archives of Internal Medicine, examined data from the National H.I.V. Behavioral Survey conducted in 2004-5 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The New York segment of the study involved data from 452 men who were interviewed anonymously at gay bars and clubs, tested for H.I.V., and offered medical and social services as needed. Officials not only urged patients to be forthcoming about their sexual behavior, but also urged doctors to ask about sexual history. “Health care providers should screen patients routinely for H.I.V.,” said Dr. Elizabeth Begier, director of H.I.V. epidemiology at the health department. “They should also ask their patients about behavior that may put them at risk. And New Yorkers shouldn’t hesitate to talk openly with their health care providers.” In a phone interview, Dr. Sweeney said that doctors are often squeamish about asking personal questions. “When the doctor initiates the subject, no matter how sensitive, most people talk about these things,” said Dr. Sweeney, who is trained in internal medicine and geriatrics. She added that she was not surprised by the survey findings; if anything, she said, she was surprised that the overall disclosure rate - 61 percent - was as high as it was. Marjorie J. Hill, chief executive of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, a nonprofit advocacy group, offered a similar assessment in a phone interview. “While distressed, I am not at all surprised,” she said of the findings. “Medical providers are not sufficiently trained in outreach and engagement with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people.” Outside of obstetrician-gynecologists, she said, “doctors are not encouraged to have conversations about sex.” ________________________________________ BY JORDAN LITE _DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Black, Hispanic and Asian men are far less likely to tell their doc that they’re gay than white men, a Health Department survey of 452 gay men shows. Thirty-nine percent of all gay men weren’t out to their doctor. Some 60% of black men said they didn’t tell their doctor; 48% of Hispanic men; 47% of Asian men, and 19% of white men. Clearly we should use the disease rates to guess how many partners they actually have, and that means a lot! We should know by now there are two categories of liars, the individual liar and the collective liars, a group bonded together to facilitate a lie, but there is another issue here, and that is when a collective group lies as individuals. It is more than coincidence when the majority of a culture all tells the same lie. Of course it is probably because they all carry the same suspicions when approached by poll and survey takers. I guess we all would do the same, but in the end all we get is false information that doesn’t help us. BIBLE SCHOLORS OFFER ALTERNATE THEORY ON SODOM AND GOMORRAH GAYS AND POLYGAMISTS |
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