Comments on: West Point Gives Award for Pro-Gays in Military Paper

By: Jack Yoest

Jack Yoest — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 05:41:11 +0000

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By: aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south.

aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south. — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:17:12 +0000

Raggio Roundup...

James Joyner has a roundup of reaction to a conservative critic of the military questioning West Point’s decision to give an award to cadet Alexander Raggio for a pro-gay senior thesis: On the merits, Andrew Sullivan observes that, “Several...

By: Alex Raggio

Alex Raggio — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:07:15 +0000

The CRM doesn't like my thesis? Ouch. I guess I'll just have to seek out the opinions of people whose views on military readiness don't include giving up the things that make a free society great.

As far as allowing academic freeedom, I honestly believe that the freedom at West Point is far greater than at most state schools. The Army doesn't want mindless drones, it wants thoughtful leaders.

Yes, I will obey the regulations as they currently read, but because this was expected of me, I was permitted and indeed encouraged to express my beliefs in an academic setting.

By: ron

ron — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:17:38 +0000

I have heard (pure rumor, no evidence) that the Army does the best job of all the services of prompting and promoting debate within their academic community. That an award winning paper happened to be pro-gay is no more surprising than an award winning paper convincingly advocating the current course of action by Army leadership. If you have doubts about the academic freedom enjoyed by army scholars, attempt to get hold of some of their professional military education papers or their professional journal. (I am Air Force and not a shill for the Army)

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:11:05 +0000

Nicolai: That doesn't make much sense. Did you actually read the post?

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:03:08 +0000

If you really want to see controversy check out Billy Mitchell. Can air power sink battleships? Real controversy with a real impact. The debate was tabled on December 7, 1941 and decided in favor of air power June 7 1942. Billy was demoted, posted to hell on earth (also known as west Texas), courtmartialled and chose to resign. He died about 10 years later.

But the B-25 (of Doolittle raid fame) was nicknamed after him.

Here we have a private NGO person who questions if someone should get an English department award. Heap big controversy...not.

By: Nicolai Brown

Nicolai Brown — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:56:30 +0000

It would be interesting to change the post title to,

"West Point Gives Award for Pro-Blacks in Military Paper."

Why do you feel threatened by equality?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:49:57 +0000

Would you rather they gave an award to the most anti-gay, the most homophobic?
you are a bigoted fool!

By: legion

legion — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:32:54 +0000

Hey, haven't you people been listening the past few years? Any questioning of current policy is disloyalty.

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