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Meet the U.S. Military’s First Openly-Gay General

Tammy Smith is the U.S. Armys First Openly Gay General

Photo Credit: U.S. Army Reserve

Brig. Gen Tammy S. Smith is quite accomplished. The 49-year-old has been serving in the U.S. Army for the past 26 years and, on Friday, she became a general. But, Smith is making headlines for a reason that supersedes her professional abilities. At her pinning ceremony last week, she became the first openly-gay general to serve in the Army — and the overall military’s — ranks.

This development comes after the military dropped its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy last year. During a ceremony on Friday, Smith’s wife, activist Tracey Hepner, pinned on her star, publicly acknowledging Smith’s sexuality and open devotion to another female. In a press release put out by the Defense Department, Smith said that “participating with family in traditional ceremonies such as the promotion is both common and expected of a leader.”

As far as her distinction as being the first gay general, Smith openly pushed her historic standing aside.

“All of those facts are irrelevant,” Smith said of her sexuality, according to Stars and Stripes. “I don’t think I need to be focused on that. What is relevant is upholding Army values and the responsibility this carries.”

According to The New York Times, Smith and Hepner got married in March 2011 in the District of Columbia. Hepner is the co-founder of the Militaries Partners and Families Coalition, a non-profit organization that “provides support, resources, education and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military partners and their families.”

Tammy Smith is the U.S. Armys First Openly Gay General

Tracey Hepner (left) and General Tammy Smith (right). Photo Credit: Tammy Smith

“The support we’ve received has been amazing,” Hepner said of the chatter surrounding Smith’s openness. “I wasn’t surprised that people were so accepting, but in some cases it has been even celebratory.”

“It’s like nothing has really changed for us, and yet everything has changed,” she added.

From 2010 to 2011, General Smith was deployed to Afghanistan where she served as the chief of Army Reserve Affairs, the Times reports. Currently, she is the deputy chief of the Army Reserve in Washington, D.C.

Advocates claim that it’s unlikely that Smith is the first gay general, however recent changes concerning “don’t ask, don’t tell,” among other military sentiments have created a scenario in which she can be the first open individual.

“For me, the story is about the promotion and the opportunities it brings,” Smith maintains.

(H/T: NY Times)

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  • USPATRIOT101
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:18am

    Ive seen some women that are great killers. I just dont need our great military used as a platform for some radical social agenda.

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:35am

      Obama is replacing generals with people who be loyal to him and not our constitution .dangerous thing

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:48am

      But still you did not learn anything from Gideon and neither from George Washington’s army. God doesn’t like the ones who lap like dogs.

       
    • ahall1950
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:55am

      That “wife” sure looks like husband to me.

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:00am

      I’m kind of thinking that oil tanker and destroyer bumping into each other in the Strait of Hormuz was a bad omen.

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    • cloudsofwar
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:06am

      it’s Obamas military. yuck.

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    • sw12
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:14am

      That was Mark Llyod Plan — Obama Diversity Czar — http://newsbusters.org/blogs/seton-motley/2009/09/23/fccs-diversity-czar-white-people-need-be-forced-step-down-so-someone-0

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:16am

      Although I believe in the Bible and I know homosexuality is an abomination…I saw some twinkle toes guy prancing all over a battlefield..THis makes a little more sense in that she’s probably the man she always wanted to be..I just don‘t understand why sex has to be involved when it’s the same sex. why can’t people just be friends…but then I don’t believe in fornication or adultery either..

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:23am

      I think all homosexual’s should be in the military. Right up on the front line.

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    • KeystoneState
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:23am

      Why does it seem that gay men are attracted to men that are feminine, and gay woman to manly girls? That never made sense to me, you‘d figure they’d be attracted to the same sex because it does NOT resemble the opposite sex, otherwise what’s the point of being gay in the first place, just the plumbing?

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    • friedwatermellon
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:34am

      To make someone a General just to say it’s a “FIRST” is whats ruining our country with incompetence.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:06am

      The second part of becoming a general is confirmation by Congress, which can degenerate into a popularity contest.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:06am

      I am sure the Romans would be so proud of us.

      Romans26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

      27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:08am

      @muffythetuffy

      Well stated – thanks.

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    • Twinspeedr
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:11am

      Amen. “Don‘t ask don’t tell” was the correct policy. No one should be discussing their sex life outside of their “partner” or their doctor. The whole thing is Weimar BS getting our society to debase it’s own morals, just like the Atheist attacks on anything remotely referring to God. Oh and we haven‘t even see Obama’s October surprise yet, I’m guessing it will be the declaration that the war on drugs has not been successful so here is; Federal legalization of pot. We are being groomed for a very ugly takeover by Globalism, be vigilant folks.

      The Utopian dream of the Global elite is an unaccountable, soft tyranny in the mold of the EU. Wait, aren’t they the ones that are on the verge of economic collapse?!!!

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:13am

      ahall1950
      That “wife” sure looks like husband to me.
      ***
      Affirmative

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    • servant100
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:19am

      Classic Barbarism …appoint people loyal to a person rather than the Civil rule of law. The fact that this deluded homosexual woman is openly proclaiming her perversion as good merely illustrates just how far we have gone down the road where good is defined as evil and evil as good. Here is a great evil…and her loyality to Obama trumps the law/more that bans openly gay individuals in a civilized society.

      Since homosexuality is a choice/preference not a genetic condition and a “choice” that now places innocent children in a very very sick household where the probability of abuse is over 80 percent. I find that this whole story is pathetically appalling. The honor of the United States military is being repeately ground into the mud by this pervert and her liberal cohorts…

      Hopefully we can see remediative changes with Romney/Ryan and the new Republican majorities are elected in November…

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:34am

      muffythetuffy
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:27am

      I think we found at least one US Officer who would order troops to open fire on American citizens sleeping in their homes. Anyone who has worked for a Homosexual supervisor knows what Monsters they are and how dangerous they can be when they gain total control.
      _________________________
      That is insane bigotry and paranoid rants that we come to the Blaze to laugh at.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:52am

      @KEYSTONE..I have made the same observations..and people who are not gay but who look gay marry people of the opposite sex who lood gay also..In other words..it seems to be a role reversal..like a femine man marrying a masculine woman..It seems to work..

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:13pm

      @AHALL
      That “wife” sure looks like husband to me.
      ——–
      Yup. Looks like the wife wears the pants in that relationship. How can a lesbian be a “husband?” I thought ***** hated male labels.

      @KEYSTONESTATE
      Why does it seem that gay men are attracted to men that are feminine, and gay woman to manly girls? That never made sense to me…
      —-
      Beats me too, but that is not always the case. Some gays are attracted to good-looking heterosexuals, but they know they can’t score unless he or she is young and vulnerable.

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    • chips1
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:14pm

      If you think Seal Team 6 was good, wait till you see the Bobbit Squad.

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    • Liberty 4x4
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:33pm

      @Ecinom… case in point, Big Sis Napalitano. Her Dykness wouldn’t hesitate to turn troops on U.S. citizenry, especially if she thought the tea party was involved. All Obama would have to do is give the word and it would happen.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:56pm

      encinom

      You show your ignorance to history. You would do well to study Ernst Roehm.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:12pm

      Sorry Ranger Dan you are a paranoid bigot and a disgrace to your uniform. Your zealotry in your belief of bronze age fairy tales and foolish belief in conspiracy theories only shows how unfit for command you are.

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    • lefty5005
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:36pm

      As usual you are wrong again Encicom. There are several lawsuits in the DHS against Janet Napolitano appointing women who are unqualified, harassing men and using verbal abuse against men in the workplace. It is scary as hell to know we have someone like JN in a secretary position but then again look who the POTUS is.

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    • sillyfreshness
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:19pm

      Look at that pic and tell me those 2 don’t look mentally ill. You have a “woman” who could pass for a man any day and in her mind, thinks she’s a man by being so masculine. They have gender identity issued-a mental illness. What’s worse is it used to be you had to tolerate their mental illness, but now you have to love it and figure out ways to further their cause.

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    • sillyfreshness
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:20pm

      They are also mentally ill in that they want their sex acts to be their primary identification.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:21pm

      you disregard the Bible, but how do you answer the fact that gays are only 2.5% of the population, but have 64% of the syphilis, made up 70% of new HIV cases last year, commit a third of the nations child molestations, have higher suicide rates, and way above average alcohol and drug abuse rates?

      What about the gay bowel syndrome, anal gonorrhea, and all the other medical problems they have and spread?

      You may hate the Bible, but you have a hard time with scientific and medical facts concerning this small but wicked group

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    • obamasacommie
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:25pm

      Looking at her uniform i was wondering as the Chief of Affairs Army Reserves how is it that shes seen so much action. I’ve been in the Army now 19 years and 11 of them have been in the Reserves and I served in Iraq. I can tell you that i‘ve seen many awards given out just to advance an officers or high ranking NCO’s career while the soldiers who take all of the risk and do all of the work get a Certificate of Appreciation. That being said she has jump wings with a star, when did she get a combat jump. She also has a CAB when whould she have seen combat action as the Army Res. COA. No offense to anyone out there to whom this applies but i have no respect for anyone who has a Bronze Star without the V device because I have literaly seen hundreds of them given out to NCO‘s and Officers who did’nt deserve them. And as soon as I read the headline I thought i bet she just got promoted and was’nt already a general and came out of the closet. She got promoted because they wanted a gay officer. I know that many of you have unending pride in our military but let me be the first to openly expose the fact that our Army has become a social program. People are promoted/awarded for the social benefit’s. I was proud of my service in the Army at one time but over the last 10 years I am disgusted by everything I see going on and I am so thankful to be retiring soon. This Army is weak and if something is’nt done soon to fix these problems we will be combat ineffective.

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    • ERP
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:26pm

      @encinom

      If I had a quarter for every time you claimed @rangerp was “unfit to command” or “a disgrace to the uniform” I’d be able to retire.

      It’s seriously getting old. Hell, you’re getting old and boring.

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    • ERP
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:28pm

      @rangerp

      This is what scares me.

      I thought the majority ruled in this country, such as in our election process. How is it that we allow 2.5% of the population dictate terms???

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    • ERP
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:31pm

      @obamasacommie

      First of all, thank you for your service to my country!.

      That was one of the best comments on this story and I agree with you that our Armed Forces are becoming more and more a social experiment than a fighting apparatus.

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:41pm

      The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men. Psalm 12:8

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:02pm

      obamasacommie

      I am with you on the whole Bronze Star deal. It has become a joke, where every captain major and SFC and up working on the FOB get one, even if they never saw a round fired. That kid walking point, and in the heat of it gets put in for a for a pat on the back, and it gets downgraded to a kick in the butt.

      I have three combat tours, and no Bronze Star medals. The good thing about running advisor teams, is I got to control every award sent in for my teams. I ensured that none ever went forward with my name on it. I cannot count how many officers I saw deploy, and when they hit the ground, they were writing their own awards. Awards should be for the soldiers doing the fighting, not for the staff folks.

      If you want to see something impressive, google up a picture of Gen George Marshall. He did it right.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:10pm

      @ERP

      “I thought the majority ruled in this country, such as in our election process. How is it that we allow 2.5% of the population dictate terms???”

      The American male got castrated by the political correctness police. He sat by drinking his beer, and watching his pro and college sports, while the multicultural crowd indoctrinated his kids, the feminist over took his church, and in the military our highest leaders have moved away from the character and values of a George Washington, and adopted the morality of Lady Ga Ga.

      Things aint looking real good for our future. A quick study of Rome lets you know our future is not real bright.

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    • Sgt_Rock
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 4:01pm

      @obamasacommie: First, the criteria for the CAB is not the same as a CIB. It simply requires the recipient to have been being under “Direct Fire” from an enemy combatant or injured by indirect enemy fire. So, if she was on the receiving end of some mutt w/ an AK taking pot shots, as a field grade officer, she qualifies. I agree with your assessment regarding the awarding of medals, badges etc to officers getting their ticket punched (i.e. 60 days at a FOB and gone w/ a CIB AND a bronze star). I have seen a lot of officers make a big deal about getting the CAB and CIB and yes, but to a lesser extent senior NCOS. But truth be told this has been a phenomenon since the first rounds went down range at Lexington and Concord. I have also been privileged to know officers and Sr. NCOs who are real warriors and exemplify the word in deed and character, who gave their troops all of the recognition and asked for none in return, because that is what LEADERS do. Until recently I was a Senior NCO in an ARMY National Guard unit, and we had a bunch of kids who EARNED their CABs and CIBs and often the Purple Hearts that went with them. So, I know the difference between sustained combat operations and “direct enemy fire.” Question is, did she fight or di di mau.
      As for the jump wings, the star at the top of the canopy denotes “Senior” parachutist, not combat jumps. Combat jumps are denoted by a smaller bronze star in the center of the suspension lines. RLTW

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    • swoods08
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 4:16pm

      No Encinomnomnom, we just laugh at your closed minded comments.

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    • oldguy77
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 4:28pm

      I can understand that lesbians donot like guys,what I fail to understand is why their partner always looks like a guy.Look at the picture the one on the left looks like her son.I guess to understand you would have to be like them.Strange.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 5:09pm

      Yep. Nowadays, the weirder you are, the faster you get promoted. They always want to have “the first ” lesbian this, the first female hispanic that… the first ….blah blah blah. Anything but a straight white male. Whenever I see this kind of crap you know that they were not promoted because they were exceptional. They were promoted to address a progressive narrative and as part of a tactic/method to brianwash our youth.

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    • normbal
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 6:42pm

      Too late. Since allowing pregnant soldiers to stay on active duty and fostering an environment of childcare, the military has been harmed irreparably.

      You may consider allowing enlisted men to marry without command permission another nail in the coffin lid.

      The progressives have been dismantling our military, making it a social welfare state experiment for over a century.

      If your goal is a world government, what need is there of a military that is ready to fight another country?

      What you want is a police force. And for all their bluster, SWAG and militarization, police are essentially civilians.

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    • Dissident_Agressor
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 7:32pm

      @ mcdave
      agreed thats the really scary part.

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    • gofer1
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:09pm

      Women who like women who look like men and men who like men who act like women. Sure, that’s normal. It‘s certainly not normal to be attracted to one’s own type private parts. Accept it, tolerate it, celebrate it, whatever, but it’s abnormal behavior by definition. Well it is as normal as dogs, leg-humping.

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    • PeachyinGA
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:18pm

      I’ve seen plenty of military ceremonies. Can’t remember the focus ever being turned to who or what the honoree was sleeping with. Why does General-Please-Ask-I’ll-Tell think we need to know about her sex life? She missed some sensitivity training along the way.

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 12:51am

      @RangerP

      When I put your argument to rest in another thread, that generally means you should stop pasting it in other threads.

      http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/112/6/836

      While you are correct homosexuals have a higher percentage of cases of Syphilis and others, heterosexuals males have a higher percentage of cases of nongonococcal urethritis, genital herpes, pediculosis pubis, scabies, and genital warts.

      So stop misleading your readings with half-truths.

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    • its_time_to_arrest_our_government
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 2:12am

      i got two words for this ******. BLANKET PARTY! many of **** were found in the morning having fallen out of bed in the nite. sleep well ****.

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    • 2thegates
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 9:05am

      There is a two-fold strategy at work here. One is to destroy the warrior-class spirit and secondly to cause the middle class to turn against the military. Once money and support are gone, the end result is a European style paper tiger and a very unstable world.

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    • jacobstroubles
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:40am

      When The Church is called home, they will all celebrate…dancing & singing in the streets, and giving in gifts. They’ll no longer be “restrained” from acting out on their blasphemous acts. the one who claims the position in wh is laying the red carpet for the ac to come. there will be 10 kings/10 kingdoms up for the prize..you can do the math from here.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:41am

      @VoteBushIn12 All Ranger Dan has is half truths. He is a bible based bigot, that blames MTV for mixing the races.

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    • SquidVetOhio
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:58am

      @ENCINOM

      I would love to see you say that to Rangers face you gutless bigot.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 11:01am

      Bushy

      You have a serious inability to apply statistics logically. Almost without exception, gays have a disproportionally high percentage of STDs.

      Heterosexuals are 97% of the population, so if they have 70% of a certain STD, than that would tell you that the 2.5% gay population is toting 30% of that sickness.

      Once again, gays have 64% of the syphilis, and around 70% of the HIV. Statistically, that is very significant. If that same 2.5% had only 20% of the syphilis or HIV, it would still be significant, being they are less than 3% of the population. When you throw in the gay bowel syndrome, depression, suicide, high percentage of breast cancer and other medical problems that lesbians have, it is clear that the homosexuals are not a healthy group of people.

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    • somecallmeMC
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:32pm

      @KeystoneState I have also wondered the same thing.

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    • RSHLUVER
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:07pm

      Can a president Mitt Romney fix the US military after Obama ruined it?

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 11:42pm

      @RANGERP

      You’re the one with the understanding issues.

      The statistics are against the entire population, not against the populous afflicted. IE,
      “Of Homosexuals X% have this STD and of Heterosexuals Y% have that STD.”

      Not

      “Of all people with this STD X% are homosexual and Y% are heterosexual.”
      Were the later the case (as you are suggesting) all values should pair off to total 100%.

      So, while the population sizes will effect the standard deviations, they need not be taken into account when reporting the hard percentages.
      Please refrain from lecturing me on how to read research findings.

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  • soap on a rope
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:16am

    Why is this news? Even Gen. Smith agrees the focus should be on her career.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:55am

      Then she should have stayed in the closet with her deviant sex life

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    • Liberty 4x4
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:32am

      I wonder if the hive is completely colonized.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:36am

      Right Kay, how dare a fellow American be treated as an equal, when bible based bigots might be disgusted.

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:42pm

      In related news, Prince Romney whooped it up in Gay Paree
      during Viet Nam, while his five “boys’ stuffed envelopes at home
      while others died during ‘Desert Storm’ and MItten had the gaul
      to say – they both equivalent.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:56pm

      Verceofreason
      You forgot about the hardship and struggle of Mittens, keeping his man servant in line, in the French palace he stayed at.

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    • oldguy77
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 4:42pm

      It has been awhile since I was in(Korea)but does the military still have what they called“Unifiorm code of military justice”The one that stuck in my head was “penitration how so ever slight constitues an act of sodomy”I guess it would not apply to lesbians unless you count the tongue.Weird.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:16am

    Retire her, NOW!

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:30pm

      Another thumper heard from. The above post sums up all the thought that anyone of your opinion has put into their position.

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:15am

    Just waiting for the general to come up with a medal for being the most gay. Keep your disgusting
    un-natural acts to yourself.

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  • USPATRIOT101
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:13am

    Even when we had dont ask dont tell, im sure people knew. It just wasnt an in your face and im sure no one cared. Now she’s a hero for her sex life and not her outstanding Military career. Nice legacy.

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  • BJAlexandria
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:12am

    You woudn’t knw it by looking at “him” nw, would you?

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:25am

      No, it’s a real shocker. I bet she was fooling everyone before she came out.

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    • USPATRIOT101
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:22am

      Yeah, that evil DADT policy sure did mask this mystical detail.

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:35am

      Hey Gonzo, at least she didn’t cover herself in excrement to get out of doing her duty to her country. At least she isn’t pursuing 12 year old girls. Right?

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:09pm

      My avatar is very popular with liberal loons. I think I’ll keep it.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:15pm

      BTW atheist, were you just as anti draft dodger back when you voted for Clinton twice?

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    • chips1
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:43pm

      Silver star, Purple Heart, Gay Ribbon. Take your pick.

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    • USPATRIOT101
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 12:19pm

      Fox Uncle Ted has since appologized for his actions and has more than redeemed himself through his accomplishments in his life. He is a true Patriot.

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    • Kathleen
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:30am

      Being a lesbian is not supposed to be about a gender identity issue, but it makes it difficult to understand that when so many lesbians try so hard to look male.

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  • sawbuck
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:12am

    This straight up a perversion and we have condoned this behavior and even promoted it ..…
    We have lost our moral compass and excepting a abnormal behavior as NORMAL ..
    And this will ultimately be the ruination of this country..
    We are now witnessing the last days of a Once Great Nation….
    Anyone who says otherwise is delusional.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:39am

      No, we have moved past the old, outdated superstitions of bible. The problem is that too many Americans, especially in the south, hold on to their bigotries as if they are a part of their identity. Forcing others to live by your religious views has no place in a secular republic.

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    • WhiteFang
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:51am

      Sawbuck, – “We are now witnessing the last days of a Once Great Nation….
      Anyone who says otherwise is delusional.”

      I think a great many people will agree with you, but there are so many who do not think current events through to their logical conclusion.
      Most do not perceive where we are in the stream of time and what is coming upon us.
      The last days are indeed upon us.

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    • theprophetofpax
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:02pm

      I believe that it is u who r delusional. Considering that I can debunk ANY argument against homosexuality, or even gay marriage, in under a minute, I doubt u have anything intelligent to add to the discussion. So, and I say this sincerely, GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY YOU UNAMERICAN POS!

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    • ERP
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:44pm

      @theprophetofpax

      Okay, I call your bluff. Tell us oh great genius your debunking thoughts against homosexual activity. Yea, tough talk calling someone “Un-American“ and a ”POS” because his/her opinion differs from yours. Maybe it’s you who should get out of MY country, b1tch.

      To @Encinom The Unhinged: You are one of the most irrelevant human beings ever to post a comment on here, period. Why don’t you Put your money where your mouth is. You’re such a defender of the homosexual atmosphere that you try to shove down our throats, why don’t you truly support it by getting down with one of your Gay friends.

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  • carbonated
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:08am

    I’m convinced this will lead to a military that is far more willing to engage in martial law and open fire on U.S. citizens. This is the military that will be OK with rounding up Tea Party people and conservatives and send them ‘re-education camps’.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:05am

    Why the heck would I want to meet two women, that try to look and act like men? Seriously Blaze, do you really think people want to meet or hear about them. The military now is nothing more than another PC playground that anarchists-Communists are trying to destroy by rotting it from within with perversion. We are doomed.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:33am

      It is news Ted. A business, an army, or a person needs to know the environment it operates in or it is all thud & blinder. … and then you fail.

      Her picture & resume sets me on edge. It is not her short hair. I have seen women with crew cuts decades ago. It provoked instant comments. My mother said it was normal. So these women having short hair is not what sets me on edge. What sets me on edge is that you can look at the picture & guess the relationship. Then you ask how does that work? Ever since The Blaze published the article on gay America showing numerous gay couples, it is clear that we are dealing with psychologically unhealthy individuals. She is unfit to be general, but we have to accept it & soldier on. Things won’t be set right for some time. Trust me it will be set right. The science is just not there. The most that they can come with it being genetic is 40% on the outside. I rue not copying a post that said being gay was like MS, sickle cell anemia or Tay Sach disease. Well if it is a disease you cure it. If it is a disease then you replace the bad alleles with gene therapy. If genetics is 40% on the outside then you don’t go the other 60% & ensure gayness, you fix the 40% of less. If you are at 40% or less it is much better to go back then to go the last 60% of the way for a life full of problems. It was a Swedish study that looked at all twins in Sweden. They did not want it to be skewed by self selection of gays.

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  • Mapache
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:03am

    Ok, now Don‘t ask Don’t tell has been around since Clinton. I guess it is ok for her to have lied prior to that time to get in…..this is like the illegals…..it begins as a lie and then everything is simply washed away……integrity, if you have it, nothing else matters; if you don’t, nothing else matters.

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  • bdandsl
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:02am

    My husband told me he is a lesbian.

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    • oldguy77
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 4:49pm

      if that the only lie he told you then you are fotunate.

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  • bdandsl
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:01am

    I am so tired hearing about everyone’s sex life. Get a room and close the door.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:08pm

      None of the gay people I know come up to every morning and tell me what they did in bed last night, all I know is that they are gay. I’m sure that everybody you know is aware that you are straight whether they care or not. How is that any different?

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    • Al J Zira
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 7:50pm

      @Chet Hempstead: In your analogy it isn’t any different. The problem is when homosexuals want legislation and policy created and passed for their benefit. That’s inequality. Regardless of what Encinom tries to persuade on this site. The bigotry is self inflicted in order to appear as victims.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:11pm

      It’s not inequality or self-imposed bigotry if they are only asking for the rights straight people already have, like serving in the military or marrying the person you love.

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  • 4truth2all
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:01am

    She might be this or that … but based on this administrations goals and direction; that is probably why she got the promotion. You’d have a hard time convincing me otherwise.

    Yea for our becomming a more civilized and tolerant society as the LORD sees NOTHING to bless … and we cry out … GOD BLESS AMERICA … and He will laugh in our time of calamity.

    Woe to a nation that calls this a reason to celebrate!

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  • sawbuck
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:59am

    So this is what our new military looks like…
    I guess it will bring a whole new meaning to getting called on the carpet..

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  • jcldwl
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:57am

    I so regret my son taking an ROTC scholarship. I hope he can take this new Army I don’t recognize.

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    • Marine25
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:50pm

      You insult your son and his service, and mine. He serves not creed, or race, or politics, or sexuality, but country. My respect for your son’s service is not based on who he sleeps with, evidently his parents can’t make the same claim.

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    • Al J Zira
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 7:56pm

      @Marine25: Settle down, guy. I don‘t think that’s what JCLDWL was trying to say. I think the point is he/she feels for their son who joins the Army only to have this kick in the teeth. Any who JCLDWL, your son can always go to the Marine Corp. And I didn’t mean to speak for you.

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  • 101stIraqVet
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:56am

    There‘s Obama’s new Secretary of Defense if he gets another four years. He’ll do her a favor since she is promoting his pro-gay agenda.

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    • chips1
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:04pm

      Obama is just creating new job ideas. Olive Drab Thongs.

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  • galicant wiseword
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:55am

    I wonder why our military hasn‘t stood up and defended the constitution from it’s domestic enemies?

    My hope for America: – same story next year: “Meet the U.S. military’s LAST openly gay general”

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:23pm

      @galicant wiseword
      Other than to you and the rest of the Bible thumping Bigots, when is equality and seeking that all enjoy equal rights under the law the hallmarks of an enemy. The true enemies are the Fringe Christians on the Blaze that seek to usurp the Constitution and the Secular Republic with a taliban styled Christian Theocracy.

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    • galicant wiseword
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:31am

      Christianity evidently enrages some homosexuals to the point of trolling around conservative sights hoping to spread their hate back to its origin. However my remarks stem from my individual opinions derived from my years of honorable service, military research and observation of current events.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:51am

    And why would anyone think we need to know this?

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    • USPATRIOT101
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:11am

      I want to know what kind of a leader she is and does she treat the males with the same respect as the females?

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  • piper60
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:51am

    She shouldn’t have to have her sexuality be THE defining aspect of her identification. Having said that, I don’t like the idea of gay generals. Almost as bad as gay preachers.

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  • DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:45am

    Communist goals 1963 from Congressional Record: 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

    26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:59am

      You are right on. We are in deep deep trouble….did I say deep?

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 5:04pm

      Exactly right. The weirdos and perverts are the norm and everybody else is a racist hater to be marginalized. Right out of the book “Fricking Commies 101”.

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  • DrunkGOP_Hack
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:44am

    Is that Matthew Modine?
    Can she shoot a rifle?
    Can she do the job?

    Then I don‘t care as long as she get’s the job done.

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    • john vincent
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:41am

      perhaps, however
      in a ‘normal’ marriage, the spouse can and has influenced decisions.

      Can u honestly say that in this scenerio, where policy and national security issues are at risk, that this ”spouse’ will not have a say???

      MOre harm than good will come of this

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:43am

    One has to wonder how many lickers she has promoted account of them being gay. Its something she can be really proud of the first gay general……..

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  • Disabledvet
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:39am

    I am so glad I am retired.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:44am

      Same here we‘ve fallen so far it’s ridiculous.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:52am

      Same here. Am hearing this from many who plan to retire very soon. Some say that things have gotten very weird too.

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    • LuvsYeshua
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:58am

      I third that. I’ve been out for only a couple of years, but even since then the US military has dove even further and further into the abyss. I want absolutely nothing to do with it. We, as a nation, haven’t merely turned our backs to God, we are running from Him with our middle finger in the air. There WILL be judgment for it.

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    • wkw58
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:30am

      Me too.

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    • Marine25
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:57pm

      I am also glad you are retired.

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    • Altair
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 1:06pm

      Marine25
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:57pm
      I am also glad you are retired.
      ************************************

      You were in the Corps. Yeah. Right.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 2:58pm

      When I was a young dumb LT, my senior NCO tried to explain about the old brown shoe Army. Based on this promotion, I know now that I was in that Army not the new Army.

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  • markrtaylor
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:39am

    Imagine That?

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  • the_system_disconnect
    Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:39am

    I need to know about this as much as I need to know the first General with a foot fetish. We shouldn’t be giving any more spotlight to people just because of their sexual preferences/proclivities.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:46am

      I agree. The greater your distance from normal human behavior, the more celebrated you become. I am not impressed one bit. I think she should be discharged.

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    • Sosorryforyou
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:07am

      Mil-Dot – What a disgrace. This woman has given her life to serve our Country, and you think she should be discharged because she is open about her sexual preference. How very unpatriotic of you. And by the way, homosexuality is normal behavior. It can be found throughout the animal kingdom, and while maybe not as common as heterosexuality, it definately is a normal and common part of existence and is not a choice.

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    • LuvsYeshua
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:14am

      Respectfully, I beg to differ. Here’s why we should know about this. Once the military and police are filled up with homosexuals, women, union members, and other typically communist/atheist people, they will have NO PROBLEM rounding up Bible believing, freedom-loving Christians and patriots and doing away with us however that may be.

      I’m not sure if you are or were ever in the military, but she has TREMENDOUS power as a general. A Brigadier General (1 star) is typically second in command of a division-sized unit––like the 82nd Airborne Division or the 101st Airborne Division. She’s not yet in charge of a combat unit of that caliber, but give it time.

      She’s in the Army Reserve, and it will be those ‘softer’ types of military units that will be called in to conduct ‘assistance’ with local police and such when that time comes. She, as a lesbian will have no problem rounding up the very people who, like God, call her lifestyle SIN.

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    • Welcome Black Carter
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:27am

      “And by the way, homosexuality is normal behavior”

      Sorry, try as you may, homosexuality will never be considered “normal” by normal people…

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    • sWampy
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:41am

      Normal in what way, it’s like fire, and snakes, we have a built in aversion to them all, unless we are taught not to.

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    • Locked
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:49am

      @Luvsyeshua

      “Once the military and police are filled up with homosexuals, WOMEN, union members, and other typically communist/atheist people, they will have no problem rounding up Bible believing, freedom-loving Christians and patriots and doing away with us however that may be.”

      Emphasis mine. You’ve already set yourself against 51% of the country by claiming WOMEN to be the enemies of Christians. I suppose you don’t know any women who are Christian but still serve our military and/or police force?

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    • LuvsYeshua
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:13pm

      @Locked

      I say nothing out of politics or political correctness, nor do I care if I have “set [myself] against 51% of the country.” The truth doesn’t care who it offends. In general, women that join the military are single (that’s not to say they stay single), and in general single women tend to vote communist/atheist, whether they realize it or not. It is not hard to convince a single woman that she ‘deserves’ free healthcare, deserves free birth control, that it’s ok to have an abortion, that homosexuality is natural, that humans can control the climate, that killing animals is bad, and a million others.

      There will soon come a time where I, and a declining few other Americans (including some women), will have set ourselves against about 95% of the country with our faith in Jesus Christ and His word, and not ‘religion’ and government like most of America puts their faith in.

      Maranatha

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    • Locked
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:25pm

      @Luvsyeshua

      Well, far be it from me to cure you of your martyr complex. You claim only 5% of the country follows Christ, while something like 70% identifies as Christian. I can understand thinking your sect alone is correct; all extremists usually start out this way. Can’t trust the military, can’t trust the police… heck, apparently you can’t trust single women either.

      Despite saying you follow Christ, it seems you’re a lot more like a jihadist ready to take up arms against the infidel, and tell women what to do for their own good (because those poor single women can’t make their own decisions!). I’ll pray that you turn back toward Christ, stop worrying about the motes of dust in other peoples’ eyes, and concern yourself more with the big ol’ plank shoved in your own.

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