AFP: Peru gives green light for gays in military to have sex

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041111/od_afp/peru_military_gays_sex_041111190219

Peru gives green light for gays in military to have sex

Thu Nov 11, 2:02 PM ET


LIMA (AFP) - Peru's constitutional court has granted gays in the military the freedom to have sex, declaring that a rule which had deemed such relations illegal was unconstitutional.

The army's rule had stipulated that military personnel could not engage in sexual relations with persons of the same sex either within or outside their barracks.

But constitutional court official Samuel Abad dubbed that rule "completely discriminatory."

Gays in the armed forces had been subject to expulsion or prison sentences if they engaged in homosexual relations, even outside their barracks, under a rule that Aldo Araujo of Lima's Homosexual Movement gay rights group declared "a violation of people's right to privacy."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041111/od_afp/peru_military_gays_sex_041111190219

i never knew this was a burning issue.

i'm tempted to say their gov't sounds more progressive than ours on this issue, but then again, they're addressing a homophobic ban they had in place which we don't, afaik. i don't really understand the need for these laws anyway. it seems like your sex life, gay straight or whatever, should have no bearing on your job. even in the military.

Actually, we have a ban on homosexual relations.

Gays can serve in the US military, so long as they don't talk about it, and don't get caught having gay sex.

If it's discovered that a military member is gay, they CAN be and often are, forced out.

So, Peru is ahead of the US in terms of basic rights for its military members, IMO.

...unlike our own don't ask, don't tell policy? I think the story has significance in that more stories like this might be a signal toward a world-wide progressive movement. I have a theory (lookout)...

...people do not like to be told what to do. So when the media tells the world that Bush has a moral mandate and the world starts to see our efforts to reverse human rights; we will see a huge worldwide move toward progressive policies. It will make our country look ridiculous.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Just don't give georgie a reason to invade you. He seems to have a problem with countries that don't fall over themselves agreeing with him.

n/t

on our asking the Peruvian military to send any troops to Iraq.