Let me preface this with an APOLOGY. It's BREAKING NEWS and as such hasn't been picked up yet by FAIR and NEUTRAL news sources like Fox News or WorldNetDaily. Instead, I have to resort to going to the New York Times right now. I'M SORRY!
Even in the headline, they can't help but push their RADICAL LEFTIST PRO-DARWINIST AGENDA! "Pleas by Conscientious Objectors Evolve"! SICKENING!
But let's put that aside and look at the meat of the story.
Answering the G.I. Rights Hotline for the last 11 years, J. E. McNeil has counseled thousands of soldiers who want to become conscientious objectors and get out of the service.
But when the House of Representatives voted May 27 to allow the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, paving the way for gay men and lesbians in the military to be open about their sexual orientation, Ms. McNeil got a hot-line call that raised a new issue: the caller said he considered homosexuality an abomination and wanted to be a conscientious objector because he could not serve in the military alongside gay soldiers.
But when the House of Representatives voted May 27 to allow the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, paving the way for gay men and lesbians in the military to be open about their sexual orientation, Ms. McNeil got a hot-line call that raised a new issue: the caller said he considered homosexuality an abomination and wanted to be a conscientious objector because he could not serve in the military alongside gay soldiers.
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