WaPo Op-Ed on Purple Heart recipient Robert Stout: Repeal the Gay Ban. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.): “We investigate people. Bring them up on charges. Basically wreck their lives. These are “people who’ve signed up to serve our country. We ought to be thanking them.”
Gay inmates in Massachusetts denied right to marry. Officials cite “security” concerns. Prison superintendent to inmate: “Your record reflects that you have been found guilty of several disciplinary infractions including threats to another resident, encouraging a riot, and threatening a staff member. You also told an Inner Perimeter Security Officer that you were not a homosexual . . . Your request to marry another man while stating you are not a homosexual raises additional concerns as to the free will of both you and Mr. Hatt.”