It does matter if your representative is a closet homosexual. It matters to the hundreds of thousands of servicemen and women who experienced the restrictive regimes of the past and it was they who paid lip service to the rules, knowing full well the sexual orientation of their comrades. It made not a whisper of difference to the mass majority of servicemen as long as you wore your uniform with honour.
When it became an issue was when Sexual Orientation was legalised and the homosexual/lesbian minority started to use it, as do the Blacks and Asians with the Race Card, as a political tool to advance themself.
I can think of nothing more horrendous than having to write to Homosexual MP Gordon Marsden for assistance for a normal service family or disabled veteran and being ignored. Illustration, the Andy Miller case.
It’s been known for a few weeks. The former chairman of the US Republican Party has come out as gay. In the September edition of Atlantic, the man who ran George Bush’s presidential election campaign, Ken Mehlman, confirmed officially that he was out.
Contrast with William Hague’s agonising statement yesterday and the “up the sleeve” sniggering and innuendo on the web. Should anyone give a damn about anyone’s sexuality? One normally views life across the Atlantic, particularly in matters of private morals, as more puritanical than our own. Not so when it comes to homosexuality.
If anything, in the UK, the internet, far from liberating the gay community, has joined the tabloid press in the trough of prejudice.
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