As British troops take control of Basra,
Andrew Sullivan asks sardonically:
How did [the British] manage not to collapse as a military force? After all, they allow openly gay soldiers in their units, thus undermining unit cohesion, destroying morale, wrecking troops' privacy and making it impossible to fight. A miracle against all the odds, I suppose.
No doubt.
A Homophobic Spotlight.
This Denver
Post column is about how an hourly employee at Kaiser
Permanente was told he couldn't appear in a local stage production
of the gay-themed holocaust drama "Bent" on his own time. Kaiser
Permanente isn't going to like the bad publicity, and I'd wager the
woman who made the decree is soon set straight (so to speak).
Corporate foolishness like this can seldom survive press scrutiny
and public exposure in a market economy.
--Stephen H. Miller