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Friday, July 29, 2005
Behind the mask
Usually, the Religiously Correct are quite careful about how they discuss homosexuality. Sometimes you get a little peek behind the mask and you see that some on the right really think homosexuals are an active, invidious menace whose mere existence should not be tolerated:In 2003, the Civil Air Patrol's Redstone Composite Squadron in Huntsville was named the Alabama Air Force Association Unit of the Year. Arnold Staton served as a senior member with that squadron from 1995 until 2003. He says in 2002 he learned that the unit had appointed a "trans-gendered" individual to work as an orientation pilot directly with the young people, unsupervised. Upon further investigation, Staton says he discovered that homosexuals have been appointed to CAP leadership positions without letting anyone know about their sexual orientation.
"I started looking and found out there's other instances in other states where openly homosexual individuals not only serve, they're given one-on-one access in leadership situations with young people," he says. "None of the parents [of the CAP youth cadets] were made aware of [the Huntsville situation]," he says, "so they'll let them serve -- and they don't really want anybody else to know what's going on."
RightThink seems to include the idea that if you can teach a kid to fly, you can teach him to be gay.
2 Comments:
Which one is it ? Are they openly gay or don't they want anybody to know ? Can't have it both ways.
By 
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4:39 PM
I don't know if I understand the question. Some of the instructors are (apparently) gay. Some people are upset that they weren't given notice of an instructor's sexual preference. This notice presumes two things. First, that an instructor's sexuality is anyone else's business. Second, that homosexuality, among all other characteristics, warrants notification. Both presumptions are entirely wrong-headed.
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