Military Indicates It's Willing To Consider Separate Facilities For Straight Troops Made Uneasy By DADT Repeal
LatestLast summer, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morell suggested, and then strongly denied, that the military was considering segregating gay and lesbian servicemembers when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is repealed. A look at the Pentagon’s Friday appeal suggests that they really are.
In July, Morrell held a conference call with reporters to discuss accusations that the survey the military was conducting of its troops about DADT contained inappropriate questions and used he bias-engendering term “homosexuals.”In the course of the discussion, he added this:
In response to questions from reporters, Morrell clarified that the survey responses could lead the military to conclude that it would “perhaps need adjustments to facilities themselves,” indicating that it is not outside the realm of possibility that, in order to preserve the privacy and modesty of heterosexual service members in group showers and barracks, the military would consider segregating gay and lesbian service members in some way.
That, of course, engendered rather a lot of controversy, leading Morrell to deny that his statement implied any such thing: