Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro told an openly gay chapla that homosexualy is a choice; a Navy spokman says he meant a choice to intify as gay.
Contents:
- NAVY SECRETARY: CHAPLA FED BY ‘CHOICE’ TO INTIFY AS GAY
- HOW A HIGH-RANKG GAY NAVY CHAPLA RETIRED WH PRI
- HOW A HIGH-RANKG GAY NAVY CHAPLA RETIRED WH PRI
- NAVY SECRETARY CARLOS DEL TORO TELLS GAY CHAPLA AND MRFF CLIENT THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A CHOICE DURG ONLE TOWN HALL
- NAVY SECRETARY: CHAPLA FED BY “CHOICE” TO INTIFY AS GAY
- NAVY EXONERAT CHAPLA ACCED OF BEG ANTI-GAY
NAVY SECRETARY: CHAPLA FED BY ‘CHOICE’ TO INTIFY AS GAY
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(Screenshot/YouTube)Edor’s Note: This story has been Secretary Carlos Del Toro told an openly gay chapla that homosexualy is a choice durg an onle town hall event that took place on Monday. They’re fed by your choice to be homosexual, and that we’ve got to work together and have hope and that we will, you know, ntue to make progrs time, ” Del Toro said the vio was posted by Lt. Cory Newell, a gay non-nomatnal pastor currently the chapla pipele.
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“The Chapla Corps is the furtht thg om homophobic. Yet all of those achievements uld have been dashed had the ary ever learned Cutler’s secret: He is gay.
HOW A HIGH-RANKG GAY NAVY CHAPLA RETIRED WH PRI
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro told an openly gay chapla that homosexualy is a choice; a Navy spokman says he meant a choice to intify as gay. * gay navy chaplain *
For nearly two s, fear stalked Cutler and fellow gay, lbian and bisexual members of the US ary unr the policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), which was passed by the Clton Admistratn 1993 and beme law 1994.
“Prr to DADT, the ary mataed an outright ban on gays and lbians, ” Aaron Belk, director of the gay-rights anizatn the Palm Center, wrote an email. “DADT was supposed to be a promise that would allow gays and lbians to serve if they agreed to keep their inti secret and rea om ‘homosexual nduct, '” wrote Belk. Denny Meyer, munitns director and veteran officer for the gay-rights group Amerin Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER), his army uniform.
HOW A HIGH-RANKG GAY NAVY CHAPLA RETIRED WH PRI
Today, Meyer is the munitns director and veteran officer for the gay-rights group Amerin Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER). “If anybody found out you were gay, you uld be murred by fellow sailors.
NAVY SECRETARY CARLOS DEL TORO TELLS GAY CHAPLA AND MRFF CLIENT THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A CHOICE DURG ONLE TOWN HALL
He said that while many lied about beg gay to avoid the war, he lied that he was straight to jo.
1st Class Denny Meyer is the munitns director and veteran officer for the gay-rights group Amerin Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER). Throughout, he heard homophobic ments — sults, ath threats and jok — om service members unaware of his inty.
One patrt fought back agast homophobia and set a precent. A feral judge led Ben-Shalom’s favor 1980, and eight years later, she beme the first openly gay service member restated, wh a promotn to staff sergeant. On active duty the Philipp, Cutler served as a unselor a se volvg a young Mare acced of beg gay.
NAVY SECRETARY: CHAPLA FED BY “CHOICE” TO INTIFY AS GAY
Over the years, other service members me to him to tell him they were gay.
He would “give them rourc the civilian muny, ” he said, cludg “gay anizatns, ary anizatns, rourc — nam, numbers, who to ntact for help.
Unr DADT, he said, “[The] difficult thg I personally stggled wh is that so many gay men and women [took] a risk by g out and paid the price.
NAVY EXONERAT CHAPLA ACCED OF BEG ANTI-GAY
“Everyone Warrgton knew I was gay, ” Cutler said. But opn was leang toward an clive ary, after advocy om anizatns such as the Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Veterans of Ameri, Inc.
“As I sought to e my veterans medil benefs, I realized that there was a need for some anizatn to reprent gay veterans, so that we uld get rpectful and equal benefs that we had earned by servg Ameri’s armed forc, ” Meyer said. Meyer lled Obama “the Abraham Lln of gay people Ameri.
Cutler’s fellow sailors fally learned he was gay. Durg an onle town hall wh Navy Chaplas and Relig Program Specialists (RPs), Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro rpond to a qutn om LTJG Cory Newell, a gay Navy Chapla and MRFF client, who asked how he plans to make the Navy and s Chapla Corp ls homophobic.