Army Fires Arabic Linguist for being gay.

[gatorboy]

Hey, who cares if the guy could help prevent future attacks on the U.S....HE LIKES GUYS! Eeeewwwww!

Hey, we have to have priorities, people!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-gays-military,1,4685745.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true


JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. -- A decorated sergeant and Arabic language specialist was dismissed from the U.S. Army under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, though he says he never told his superiors he was gay and his accuser was never identified.

Bleu Copas, 30, told The Associated Press he is gay, but said he was "outed" by a stream of anonymous e-mails to his superiors in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C.

"I knew the policy going in," Copas said in an interview on the campus of East Tennessee State University, where he is pursuing a master's degree in counseling and working as a student adviser. "I knew it was going to be difficult."

An eight-month Army investigation culminated in Copas' honorable discharge on Jan. 30 -- less than four years after he enlisted, he said, out of a post-Sept. 11 sense of duty to his country.

[Benhurst]

1. This is beyond stupid. But then there are all sorts of Americans

who are fluent in Arabic -- NOT!

[RethugAssKicker]

2. outright discrimination !

[LeftCoast]

3. Yet again, the military violates it's own BS policy

They asked, and he didn't tell.

I thought this was supposed to be the Land of the Free™

[im10ashus]

4. Honey, it's the land of the free...

if you are straight or pretend to be.

[KurtNYC]

5. They fired 6 others right after 9/11 eom

[gula]

6. I remember thinking then: What great timing besides

being unjust and incredibly backward.