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Topic: Same-Sex Marriage:
Army’s Not Budging |
Same-Sex Marriage:
Army’s Not Budging
Time, by Mark Thompson
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/18/2013 5:59:18 AM
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| Last week, the Marines made it clear that its spouses’ clubs could not discriminate against same-sex couples. Wednesday, the Army said: not so fast. As things stand now, the Army, backed by the Pentagon, is saying it will not bar recognition of spouses’ clubs that prohibit same-sex couples from membership. This all began awhile back at Fort Bragg, N.C., after the Association of Bragg Officers’ Spouses denied Ashley Broadway membership, even though she is married to Army Lieutenant Colonel Heather Mack. Broadway says she is “extremely disappointed” by the decision.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 1/18/2013 6:18:40 AM (No. 9123594)
How many vital, benifitial organizations simply disappeared when the government said that they had to accept members from previously excluded groups? Ditto here. Spouse clubs on bases will simply disappear when clubs are forced to accept incompatible persons as members.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
rfr46, 1/18/2013 6:52:09 AM (No. 9123620)
This is pure provocation by the allegedly "extremely disappointed subject. The goal is to destroy the wives´ club or change it beyond recognition.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/18/2013 7:06:07 AM (No. 9123643)
The social engineering of our military began under bubba and continues at a rapid pace under this America hating president.
Those who believe the government is there to provide free stuff rather than defend our national security are at grave risk.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Hotrod, 1/18/2013 8:06:29 AM (No. 9123742)
These kinds of things are how the left is attempting to destroy the fabric of America. The communists told us that we would be destroyed from within (since they couldn´t defeat us militarily.) They have seeped into our education system, labor unions, government, media, and other groups- including the democrat party.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JimS, 1/18/2013 8:37:17 AM (No. 9123832)
No doubt Ashley Broadway recognized that, as a lesbian spouse, she would not be welcomed by the Spouses Club or ever fit in.
Rather than accept reality, she decided to force her way in--even if it destroys the Spouse Club.
Better no Spouse Club, than one where they don´t like me.
Sorry, but you cannot force people to freely associate and "celebrate" your perversion.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
frenesi1, 1/18/2013 8:56:59 AM (No. 9123895)
‘We shall destroy you from within’ -- Nikita Kruschev
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mike43, 1/18/2013 11:36:36 AM (No. 9124369)
The officer´s wives or spouses groups that the Army has are different from official support groups. Think of them as the neighborhood coffee group or book club.
Are they influential? Perhaps, indirectly. But I know as an ex-military officer, it is more for the social stuff than anything else, nowadays. Few commanders, that I knew paid any attention to spousal complaints, unless it revealed a situation that was dangerous.
In years past, these were the only support groups. Think Madelaine Stowe in "We Were Soldiers." And their influence was more strong. Nowadays, not so much.
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