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GOP Candidates: Gays "Taken Care Of" in Military [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]
Tue, 2010-05-04 18:09 — sciencestaff
Here's a couple of Republican candidates in Tennessee warmly reminiscing about the good old days when a gay soldier was "taken care of" in precisely the wrong way:
Kirkland, a Vietnam veteran, said of his time in the military: "I can tell you if there were any homosexuals in that group, they were taken care of in ways I can't describe to you."
Smith, who served in the first Iraqi war, added: "I definitely wouldn't want to share a shower with a homosexual. We took care of that kind of stuff, just like (Kirkland) said." Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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