Comments on: Philippines ends ban on gays in military

By: venn carino

venn carino — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:26:40 +0000

I think the armed Forces of the philippines has made a good decision in allowing the gays to be a part of the troup. people don’t know the capabilities and the abilities of the gays.. You may not know.. some gays are braver than those of he straight guys lor men out there…

so why not, just support that gays and we don’t know thats omeday a general of the armed forces of the philippines is a proud GAY!
that would be all..
thank you..

By: Jonas Bagas

Jonas Bagas — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:57:12 +0000

Oooppppss!!! this is not verified. We’ve been getting mixed signals from the Armed Forces of the Philippines. One official would say that the military is open for lesbians and gays, as long as they don’t come out or cross-dress, then another would say that the military doesn’t accept LGBTs at all. There is no specific policy on this, and what’s disturbing is that the military has no specific non-discrimination policy for LGBTs. In several congressional hearings, in fact, military officials have actually said that the “unofficial” policy is that LGBTs are not accepted.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:02:25 +0000

Thank goodness I only saw this story today. I would have been worried sick the whole of yesterday wondering what the end of the world would be like at 11:59:59PM.

As for the ban on “overt homosexual behaviour”, I do not understand why the Philippines military does not want their soldiers to comb their hair.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:10:40 +0000

The policy against homosexuals serving also applies to the National Guard and the Coast Guard. All of the Armed Forces of the government have banned homosexuals from serving.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:58:22 +0000

Shawn,

If it weren’t for “brainless heteros” not only you wouldn’t be born and here via no effort on your part thanks to the sperm and egg of others (other than by cell division) to dump on heteros, (since to date that is still currently how the most of our favorite GLBT personalities and the gorgeous gay boys and gorgeous gay girls and the rest of us fabulous if not gorgeous GLBTs got here) and maybe the military of some hostile foreign land would be on your doorstep.

every country in the world unfortunately has to be ready to defend itself, its citizenry and its territorial integrity from the hostile intentions of other countries. Defense is not sweetness and light, not peaches and cream. It is a very unpleasant and nasty task, and somebody has got to do it, so that those like myself who is too old for military duty and those like you who don’t want to don’t have to.

9/11 is an illustration of what can happen to any land in the world and every land needs to ready to protect itself.

As for one good example even though in the ancient world, If it weren’t for the courage and strategic planning of the ancient Greek kingdom of Sparta and other lands of common language and culture in ancient Greece the mighty and vast armies of the Persian conqueror Xerxes shooting thousands of arrows skyward so they would travel farther and come raining down on the samller Spartan army, Xerxes would have prevailed. He tried cunning, guile and intimidation to reign in the Spartan king and when that failed, he sent his armies to capture Greece. The Spartans even though they had fewer men, figured a way to stop the armies of Xerxes and the Persians in the end did not permanently conquer the ancient Greeks.

So, it is with every land in the world.

Some gay people consider it an honor to be able to be part of something to keep their homeland safe, secure and freer.

There are lands in the world where gay people are treated by their governments and societies with more respect than here in the USA. And in those lands, some of the gay people who live there feel honored to stand ready to help protect their country if need be.

Many around the world honor the bravery and sacrifice of those gay and straight protectors of their own lands.

The Phillipines and other countries will be stronger nations for engaging the support of straight and gay alike in its land for its national defense.

By: KaninZ

KaninZ — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:16:36 +0000

I served in the Infantry for ten years, led a rifle squad in the 101st Airborne for part of that. Once I reached the realization that I’d have to accept my homosexuality I felt that serving honorably under the current rules was impossible.
If allowed to serve openly I would have probably retired after doing twenty years or possibly more since my twenty would have been up about the same time as “Mission Accomplished!”

By: JPM

JPM — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:08:22 +0000

“I HIGHLY doubt that the U.S. will follow suit… President Obama… doesn’t seem to keen on following through with any of his promises to the LGBT community.”

Obama is a smart guy. He knows how polarizing LGBT issues are. If legislation is passed to end DADT, I have no doubt he will quietly sign it into law. I would love to hear a grand speech from Obama praising the undoing of a great injustice with the removal of DADT, but lets face it, it would hurt him in the polls.

By: porter

porter — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:58:13 +0000

this is history in the making now you will see change all over the world this is my testimony of rainbow colored people living and learning and serving together that has always been a dream of mine my beatiful people look how far we done came this what makes me proud to see people making an effort to work together in these trying times god bless the people of the phillippines for turning the page in history and not accepting discrimination!

By: TigerTzu

TigerTzu — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:36:07 +0000

Jon in Canada Said: “….how do rethuglicans and the christonuts on the right reconcile their cowardice at not sending their own children into the fray (Mr. Romney, Mr. Rumsfeld et al, are you listening?) yet would dishonour, disrespect and disparage those very brave and patriotic men and women of the gay community who clearly have more pride, courage and strength to serve and all the more so because they know at the same time, many of their own countries’ leadership hate them.”

That pretty much sums it up. Well said.

By: shawn

shawn — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:01:33 +0000

Oh yes! Let’s all celebrate our lowering of our standards to kill, maim and slaughter like brainless heteros! LMFAO!!