Whoops: homosexuals lose "get out of jail free" card

By Bryan Fischer

According to Nartional Review Online, there may be a whole lot of homosexuals who just got an unpleasant surprise. With the repeal of the law prohibiting homosexual service in the United States military, they just lost their "get out of jail free" card.

The hyperventilating out-of-the-mainstream media has been full of supposed stories of horrific discrimination against homosexuals in the military which they say resulted in many of the best and and brightest getting ash-canned from the military through invidious witch-hunts.

However, the facts tell a much different story. And while facts have never troubled the left, let alone played a significant role in any single part of their worldview, these facts actually should be sobering for our pretty-in-pink wannabe soldiers.

It turns out — get this — that 85% of all homosexuals who got discharged on the basis of the law that prohibits open homosexual service in the armed services threw themselves out of the military.

This little factoid is not the fanciful production of AFA or FRC. It comes straight from the Pentagon itself.

In other words, these gay soldiers didn't get outed by some snitch. They outed themselves. They went to their commanding officer and said, I'm gay, get me out of here.

According to the Pentagon, "approximately 85% of discharges for homosexual conduct have been made on the basis of statements by the Service member."

And even more distressing for our would-be limp-wristed enlistees, the Pentagon adds helpfully that "approximately one quarter of these discharges have occurred in the first four months of a Service member's service."

In other words, homosexuals — or people who suddenly discovered latent homosexual tendencies when they could use it to parachute out of the military — signed up for the all-volunteer army, got a few weeks into basic and said, forget this noise. I'm outtahere. All they had to do was admit they were gay — whether they were or not — and they got their walking papers along with an honorable discharge.

And don't think for a moment that straight soldiers didn't perjure themselves — claiming they were gay when they weren't — just to go back home to Momma.

According to NRO:

As one Col. Om Prakash put it in a 2009 report for the U.S. War College, one possible explanation for the rise of discharges for homosexuality observed after DADT was that "given the recent reduction in stigma associated with homosexuality in society at large, simply declaring one is homosexual, whether true or not, is the fastest way to avoid further military commitment and receive an honorable discharge."

Well, all that's gone now, both for gays and straights willing to tell odious lies about themselves. If a homosexual signs up now, he's stuck with the whole magilla. Go to your superior officer now and say, hey, I'm a flaming homosexual, I hate the army, let me out of here, the superior officer will say, tough darts, those days are gone. You're stuck with us now, Nancy-boy.

So, who's sorry now?

This may be the silver lining in this whole mess. Conservative groups, simply as a public service, may want to sound this message far and wide out of simple, straightforward compassion, just in order to protect potential homosexual soldiers from themselves and from the distressing discovery that they just kissed off a handy exit option that nobody else had.

The more this message resounds, the fewer homosexuals will want to enlist. It's one thing to be gay, and say, hey, I'll give it a few weeks and then bail if I don't like the food, can't get enough action in the barracks, or thought I'd enjoy ogling male soldiers in the shower more than I did.

Those days are now shortly to be a distant memory for our homosexual friends. They enlist, they're stuck with the whole program just like everybody else.

In other words, they had preferential treatment and special privileges, a status and privileges and an exit strategy denied to their honest and straight counterparts. And homosexuals just bargained it away. Now, they will discover to their dismay, they're back to having equal rights instead of special rights.

Bottom line: be careful what you ask for. You just may get it.

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© Bryan Fischer