Nathaniel Frank: What Can Stop the Gay-Bashing in the Military? »
Posted By david_nwpa 3 months, 1 week ago in News
Petty Officer Third Class Joseph Rocha was brutalized for more than two years at his base in Bahrain after his refusal to hire a prostitute raised suspicions that he was gay. This is not an academic debate.
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What exactly is it that sailors do for fun? This is another in a string of stories coming from Iraq and Afghanistan in which our troops make America look like the land of bigotry and hatred. We have reduced our nation to the land of hypocrisy by claiming to allow freedom for all, but cannot protect gay and lesbian soldiers and sailors from abuse, torture, and murder. Freedom, indeed!
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