Integrity News

Well, it seems Marine reservist Matt Sanchez, aka Rod Majors, is still out there beating his drum. In this recent piece, he defends Don’t ask, Don’t tell and talks a little about the recent hearing in Congress on DADT. (I’ve got to wonder, was he trying to “promote” himself when he came up with that porn name?)

Two “gay” corporals walk into a bar…

Sanchez hasn’t denied his gay porn past, but why does he think it’s okay for him to have had sex with men and remain in the service, when that is clearly a violation of the law? It’s especially ludicrous for him to defend the law he has willfully violated.

Moving beyond that big issue, there are a number of problems with his assertions in the article:

but LGBT activists don’t care if the military asks, because they have every intention of telling.

Nothing in the Military Readiness Enhancement Act requires anyone to tell what their sexual orientation is. MREA also specifically protects sexual orientation - that means heterosexual as well as homosexual and bisexual - so it applies to everyone, not just gay troops. This idea that you are going to be forced to reveal your sexual orientation is just another scare tactic used by social conservatives.

Activist groups like the Human Rights Campaign demand a sex surge for the military at the expense of national security.

What the heck is a “sex surge” anyway? Of course, Sanchez is a former porn actor, so I guess he would know better.

After repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, or DADT, the campaign will lobby for recognition of same-sex couples in the military.

Yet another scare tactic from the social right. I can’t speak for everyone, but I plan on re-joining the military after DADT is gone. I also know some DADT activists are going to take a break from politics. Sanchez and others try to portray a “gay agenda” assuming and promoting the idea that all some of us do is work to promote every gay issue. My friends and family can attest that I pretty much focus exclusively on DADT and most of the other issues I support or defend are not gay-specific.

how would unit cohesion respond once two Marine infantrymen, say Lance Cpl. Jones and Lance Cpl. Callahan of the same fireteam start to date?

For a college student, Sanchez sure doesn’t seem to understand probability. I wasn’t a Marine, but I know that there are enough similiarities between the Army and the Marine Corps to make this understandable.

Suppose you have a 100-man company. Each squad is composed of ten men. Now various studies over the past 60 years have consistently found that around 4% of men are homosexual or bisexual. That would mean that possibly four men in the entire company are interested in dating other men. Now, if you take out all the officers and support personnel of the company, you have six squads of ten men each. Now what do you think is the probability that two of those four gay men are going to be in the same squad? It’s pretty slim.

To continue with Mr. Sanchez’s analogy, you would also have to assume that the men want to date each other, or that they have no interest in dating civilians or perhaps another soldier in a different unit. Many people, gay and straight, avoid dating coworkers simply because they know that it can create tension at work. Why does Mr. Sanchez assume that gay Marines or soldiers wouldn’t believe the same thing. It’s very likely that they would avoid dating each other simply because of the tension it would create. All in all, it’s highly unlikely they would date.

From Bagram, Afghanistan, I reported the 70 and counting pregnancies among the small population of military women. The hook-up culture wasn’t going to change just because there was a war going on.

Why do opponents of gays in the military always bring up examples of straight troops misbehaving? More often than not, they make a good case for keeping heterosexuals out of the military. Of course, it is part of their larger agenda to keep women out. But, I guess that’s consistent for Mr. Sanchez. I’m sure he’d enjoy an all-male environment.