How Officer and a Gentleman should have ended

Gawker: It’s too bad the world is going to end next year, because sometimes it seems like it might actually be kind of okay: this is a video of Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, chosen by raffle to receive the ritual first homecoming kiss, greeting her fiancée Citlalic Snell on the pier—the first same-sex homecoming kiss in Navy history. The couple met in boot camp and kept their relationship secret until the September repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. “It’s nice to be able to be myself,” says Gaeta.

Play fair, jarhead-lesbians…

Macon.com: Three San Diego Marine corporals have been discharged for bad conduct after admitting they faked their marriages to receive housing allowances.

The three pleaded guilty to stealing from the government through fraud at a special court martial, 1st Lt. Maureen Dooley, a Marine spokeswoman, said Monday.

In the scheme, Cpl. Ashley Vice, who is a lesbian, and her girlfriend, civilian Jaime Murphy, pretended to be married to two male Marines, Cpl. Jeremiah Griffin and Cpl. Joseph Garner.As a result, they got a $1,200 monthly housing stipend meant for married Marines to live off base.

But What Do Military Action Figures Think About The DADT Repeal?

Queerty:In the run up to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, plenty of polls, surveys and questionnaires asked voters, soldiers and politicians how they felt about allowing gays into military. But you know who they didn’task? The military action figures fighting battles every day on the shag carpets and playsets of family bedrooms.

Artic mission soldier Snow doesn’t have a problem with people “trying to taste each other’s rainbows”—he does have a problem with those who daydream about baloney sandwich sex though.

Jungle don’t mind gays in the military either. Heck, the gay dude he knows makes the ultimate wingman. Jungle also don’t mind when ladies send him bras and panties in the mail either because, “Jungle likes it nasty.”

 

Big 180˚: US Navy wants to allow gay marriages on bases

PinkNews: The US Navy is planning to allow chaplains to conduct gay marriages on its bases once the ban on openly gay soldiers is lifted this summer.

The move would allow chaplains to perform the ceremonies in states which allow the practice.

An April 13th memo from Navy head chaplain Rear Adm Mark Tidd says: “Consistent with the tenets of his or her religious organization, a chaplain may officiate a same-sex, civil marriage: if it is conducted in accordance with a state that permits same-sex marriage or union; and if that chaplain is, according to the applicable state and local laws, otherwise fully certified to officiate that state’s marriages.”

The memo, leaked to a conservative website, added: “Regarding the use of base facilities for same-sex marriages, legal counsel has concluded that, generally speaking, base facility use is sexual orientation-neutral. This is a change to previous training that stated same-sex marriages are not authorized on federal property.”

UPDATE:

The US Navy has reversed its plans to conduct gay weddings on bases, saying that officers need more time to look at the legal issues.

This week, an April 13th memo from Navy head chaplain Rear Adm Mark Tidd was reported as saying that Navy chaplains would be able to perform the ceremonies on bases in states where gay marriage was legal.

The memo said: “Regarding the use of base facilities for same-sex marriages, legal counsel has concluded that, generally speaking, base facility use is sexual orientation-neutral. This is a change to previous training that stated same-sex marriages are not authorised on federal property.”

Despite this, another memo released yesterday said that the plans were “suspended until further notice pending additional legal and policy review and interdepartmental coordination”.

Good news! You’re not as crazy as this person

Advocate: Cindy Jacobs of the Generals International ministry caught a lot of heat earlier this year when she blamed mass bird deaths on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

But she stands by her statement, now saying repeal caused the tsunami and earthquakes in Japan as well.

“Everything that I said has happened,” Jacobs said. “We have seen these disasters happen. We need to pray, we need to repent for turning away from God and saying that we can make any laws that we want, it doesn’t matter… that God’s laws don’t count.”