BACKLASH FROM GAYS IN THE MILITARY

The New York Times has once again joined the chorus for gays in the military. It got Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to endorse the change in a January 2, 2007 OpEd.

Dr. Paul Cameron, Chairman of the Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs is conducting talk shows discussing the problems our military is experiencing due to gay soldiers being among its ranks, including allegations of homosexual rape by an Air Force officer. (See article below.)

During your interview, Dr. Cameron explains, “Seems the good general chatted with a few gays in the military and endorsed eventual lifting of the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy governing homosexuals in our armed forces. Taking advice on this subject from gay rights advocates is like asking al Qaeda for advice on how to conduct the war in Iraq.”

“The General would have learned more from reading a book called ‘My Country, My Right to Serve’, commissioned by openly homosexual Congressman Gerry Studds at the height of the ‘gays in the military’ controversy. This book is a compilation of first-person narratives given by homosexuals who served in the military in the old days, when the services banned homosexuals outright.”

One presumes, Dr. Cameron contends, that the contributors knew that the book was designed to strike down the ban on homosexuals; but what they reported proved the validity of the original rule. The book documents numerous rapes, rampant insubordination, and sex between officers and the enlisted men – all violations of the law and inimical to good order and unit cohesion. Yet it asserts that the 42 “oral histories provide more personal evidence that gays are good workers in the military. We do a good job, we are not security risks, and there is no reason to kick us out.” (p. xvii).

Of those who contributed:
• 46% lied about their homosexuality at induction,
• 31% ‘converted’ to homosexuality in the military,
• 94%, admitted to engaging in homosexual sex in the military, and
• 79% participated in officer-enlisted sex.

Consider two excerpts:

Gay, enlisted. Naval Justice School “was heaven for a gay person... I was involved with a couple of guys.” (p. 63) “We had a game where we'd have four or five gay guys go together, spot somebody in a club, and if you were interested, you would be on...who would get him first. I had the award for getting the highest-ranking officer in bed with me. He has since become a brigadier general.” (p. 64) “After [being caught in the bushes with a guy] I would use the courtroom! It was locked, but because of my position, I had a key. If I met somebody, we'd go back to the courtroom. It was air-conditioned besides, so it was nice.” (p. 68) “I think I worked harder and performed better” [than most in the service]. (p. 70)

Gay, officer. “I met this private, E-1, who came from Puerto Rico. This became my first sexual encounter in the military.” (p. 109) “I was known as a communist outspoken queer,...” (p. 110) “I had become very sexually active with a number of soldiers on the post.” (p. 111) “I was outraged that the military could spring this kind of charge on me four days from being discharged.” (p. 112) “We called every active officer in Special Forces, Airborne Europe, to testify either on my behalf or against me, and figured that we cost the government over a million dollars. On top of that I got paid for my own court martial, which permitted me to take home over ten thousand dollars.” (p. 115)

He had, of course, violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice, as had virtually all of the other contributors; but no one seemed bothered by that fact. These kinds of gay exploits are far from unusual. It would be interesting to see if, after reading this book, Gen. Shalikashvili would still say that gays make good soldiers.

If the good General follows the news, he would have run across this from AP (2/22/07). Seems Capt. Devery Taylor, 96th Medical Support Squadron chief of patient administration, of Eglin AFB in Florida stands accused of drugging and then raping 4 men, 2 of them in the military: an Air Force first lieutenant, a federal law enforcement officer who was also served as an Air National Guard C-130 navigator. This tale, of meeting guys in bars, inviting them to his apartment, putting a drug in their drinks and then raping them, would fit comfortably in Studd’s sponsored book.


ABOUT DR. PAUL CAMERON…
Dr. Paul Cameron is a Researcher/Clinician and a reviewer for the prestigious Canadian Medical Association Journal and has been a Reviewer for: American Psychologist and British Medical Journal. His specialty is in sexual social policy and the social and personal effects of various habit-systems (e.g., drug abuse, smoking, homosexuality). He has advance expertise in philosophic, economic, and sexual factors as they bear upon personal & collective health and cultural viability.

Having received his Ph.D from The University of Colorado in Social Personality Psychology, Dr. Cameron is a leading expert on sexual and homosexual research, trends and behavior.

Since 1982 Dr. Cameron has been the chairman of Family Research Institute, Inc. of Colorado Springs. He has taught courses on human sexuality, counseling, marriage & the family, personality and gerontology.


The following article may prove to be helpful in show prep.

Northwest Florida Daily News
Byline: Mladen Rudman

Sep. 15--EGLIN AFB -- Graphic testimony and rigorous cross-examination marked an Article 32 hearing Thursday concerning allegations of homosexual rape by an Air Force officer.

Capt. Devery L. Taylor, 96th Medical Support Squadron chief of patient administration, is charged with four counts of forcible sodomy, three counts of kidnapping and two counts of attempted sodomy.

The hearing was the military's version of a grand jury inquiry. The purpose was to determine if there was enough evidence to try Taylor, punish him administratively or take no action. A decision might take weeks.

Taylor, dressed in his duty uniform and rimless glasses, paid close attention to the prosecution's six witnesses. Four of them, all men, said they believed Taylor drugged and then raped them. His lead attorney, civilian Martin Regan of New Orleans, let no one off the hook.

"I remember being tired and I remember feeling like someone was pulling on my pants," said the first witness, an Air Force first lieutenant. The airman had already testified that his mind was foggy and he had little control of his muscles during much of his encounter with Taylor.

The alleged victim and Taylor had met at a beach party and later at an Okaloosa Island bar. That's where the first lieutenant believes Taylor gave him a shot or two spiked with an incapacitating, sexually arousing drug. The rape allegedly occurred at Taylor's Bluefish Drive apartment on the island in June 2004.

"Do you have any evidence that Capt. Taylor was involved in anything?" asked Regan.

The witness said, no.

"Everything that night, as I gather, was foggy, very much hazy," Regan continued. "That's what you think happened. I mean you're not sure what happened."

Throughout the daylong hearing, prosecutors pointed out similarities among the victims -- they complained of slipping between consciousness and unconsciousness, of being in Taylor's company during nonconsensual intercourse -- while Regan capitalized on their poor recollection of events.

With the first and fourth witness, a federal law enforcement officer and Air National Guard C-130 navigator, Regan suggested they had homosexual or bisexual appetites. Because they were military, he said he wondered whether they had to blame someone for homosexual acts that became the subject of an Air Force Office of Special Investigations case to avoid discharge.

"I wouldn't call it sex. I wasn't a willing participant," the navigator said at one point. "I was raped."

The airmen conceded they were embarrassed by their predicaments and hesitated talking about them.

The navigator, on temporary duty at Eglin in March, confirmed under cross-examination one of his buddies teased him about "homo-ing up" for the night. Regan took that to mean he had to contrive a story to avoid discharge, although the navigator voluntarily reported the incident shortly after it happened.

The Air National Guard captain said he wasn't concerned about his career. The issue was if anyone would believe him because it was a "bizarre situation."

He's married. The first lieutenant got married after the alleged rape.

The second and third witnesses, also both allegedly rape victims, were civilians from Pensacola. They were openly homosexual but said Taylor violated their trust.

The second witness, a paramedic, said he had consensual sex with Taylor in June 2004 but that the incident the following month was sexual battery.

He described being weak and nauseated after Taylor gave him a drink at a bar.

The paramedic added that at one point he was dry heaving into a toilet at Taylor's apartment when Taylor grabbed his head and forced oral sex.

"Why didn't you report the assault earlier?" questioned Regan.

He eventually followed with: "You did not see Capt. Taylor put anything in your drink."

The paramedic said he didn't.

On redirect examination, prosecutor Capt. Evelyon Westbrook asked the alleged victim how many drinks he had before the night turned hazy. He said half-a-beer and Taylor's shot.

"Did you want to have sex with Capt. Taylor that night?" she continued.

No, the paramedic responded.

The third witness said he met Taylor in a bar when the Air Force captain came up to him and said, "You have the greatest set of bun buns I've ever seen."

He was allegedly raped at his Pensacola home by Taylor in December 2005. Again, the witness described drinking a shot provided by Taylor. He then recalled bits and pieces of the night.

When Regan asked him why he didn't report the incident until an Air Force investigator contacted him months later, the home improvement store manager offered a simple reply.

"What guy goes to the police to report that he was raped by another guy?" he said.

The fifth witness was an Eglin Regional Hospital pharmacist who talked about the characteristics of the "club drug" GHB, which the prosecution suggested was the compound used by Taylor to numb his victims.

Regan later pointed out that no ready-to-go gamma hydroxybutyric acid, its precursor chemicals or recipes to make the compound were found in Taylor's home or car when they were searched.

Hurlburt Field-based OSI Special Agent Kelly McPherson was the prosecution's final witness. She systematically described the case against Taylor.

Although Regan generally questioned the thoroughness of the investigation during crossexamination, he spent much of the time asking why OSI relied on a confidential informant with a criminal record to find two of the alleged victims and build its case against Taylor.

Regan also wanted to know why the informant, who faces federal prison time for laundering pornography money, would be treated as credible.

He asked if the informant was a plant acting on instructions from McPherson and suggested that using the informant violated his client's due process.

McPherson held firm.

"He said he consulted with a priest and the priest told him it was the right thing to do to assist with this investigation," she said. "Again, I didn't direct him to talk to Capt. Taylor. He did that all on his own accord."

Daily News Staff Writer Mladen Rudman can be reached at 863-1111, Ext. 443.
Copyright (c) 2006, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach
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