Conway: If gays serve openly, Marines may not share rooms (xpost from GD)

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Conway: If gays serve openly, Marines may not share rooms
By Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post
Online Edition, Saturday, March 27, 2010

The Marine Corps’ top officer said he would not force straight Marines to share rooms with gay servicemembers if Congress repeals the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law and allows gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces.

Gen. James Conway, the commandant of the Marine Corps, told the Web site Military.com in an interview published Friday that an “overwhelming” number of Marines would be opposed to bunking with someone of a different sexual orientation. As a result, he said, the Corps might have to ditch its double-bed rooms and offer single rooms to everyone.

“We want to continue (two-person rooms), but I would not ask our Marines to live with someone who is homosexual if we can possibly avoid it,” Conway told the Web site. The Marine Corps is the only branch of the armed services that requires its unmarried members to share rooms, a policy meant to foster unit cohesion.

Conway has been an outspoken opponent of efforts to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, which Congress adopted in 1993.

“I think the current policy works,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee last month. “My best military advice to this committee, to the secretary, to the president, would be to keep the law such as it is.”


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=68956

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1. I meet with a group of 7 other veterans, ranging from Vietnam to Afghanistan & Iraq.

Not a one of them has a problem with gays in the military. The leadership is blowing smoke (or smoking dope).