Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-East Cobb) has some Biblically-based reasons for opposing gays in the military:
"The Bible says (homosexuality is) a capital offense. You want someone [in the military] with unrepentant criminal behavior? And it's not just that, neither should adulterers, neither should thieves, neither should a lot of things. The church is full of sinners, but we're told in 1st Corinthians it rattled off the homosexual, the adulterer, the thief, the liar, and such were some of you, but you've been washed, you've been justified and so forth. It's not what you were. You're not punishing a thought. But do you want an unrepentant drug dealer in the military? Same thing."
The Georgia Voice writes that "according to his official biography, Franklin 'has been called ‘the conscience of the Republican Caucus' because he believes that civil government should return to its biblically and constitutionally defined role.'"
