13 March 2007

Go Fuck Yourself, Peter Pace

Oh, but that must be immoral in your book, too. Well, just take it as the insult it is then. You would have done well to simply keep your trap shut.

Top General Calls Homosexuality 'Immoral': Gay Advocacy Group Blasts Comment as 'Outrageous'
AP

WASHINGTON (March 13) - Senior aides to the chairman of the military Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday that Marine Gen. Peter Pace won't apologize for calling homosexuality immoral -- an opinion that gay advocacy groups deplored.

In a newspaper interview Monday, Pace had likened homosexual acts to adultery and said the military should not condone it by allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces.

"General Pace's comments are outrageous, insensitive and disrespectful to the 65,000 lesbian and gay troops now serving in our armed forces," the advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network said in a statement on its Web site.

The group has represented some of the thousands dismissed from the military for their sexual orientation.

Pace's senior staff members said Tuesday that the general was expressing his personal opinion and had no intention of apologizing. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak on the record.


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