Last Call

Good news and bad news on the whole rolling back DADT thing.  The good news, the Defense Department is going to make it a lot tougher to expel anyone under the current rules.  Bad news, the Marines still aren't playing ball.

The Marine Corps' top officer says he would want to avoid housing gay and heterosexual Marines in the same rooms on base if the ban on gays openly serving in the military is lifted.


"I would not ask our Marines to live with someone that's homosexual if we can possibly avoid it," Marine Commandant Gen. James Conway told a Web site in an interview posted Friday. "And to me that means we've got to build [barracks] that have single rooms."

Asked about the possibility of gay and straight Marines living together, Conway told the site Military.com that he would "want to preserve the right of a Marine that thinks he or she wouldn't want to do that -- and that's the overwhelming number of people that say they wouldn't like to do so."

Conway said the Marine Corps is the only branch of the armed services that houses two to a room.

Marines.  You can ask them to die for their country.  Exquisitely trained, lavishly equipped, the soldier's soldier.  Ask them to deal with TEH GHEY however, and they can't take it like the rest of America.

Go figure.