Peru gives green light for gays in military to have sex

This is only a four-paragraph article, so I'm posting it all here. Even a small country like Peru is moving forward while we move backwards.

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

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."

Sad that so many "oppressive" countries have a more open view about homosexuality than the so-called "land of the free".

The Land of the Free......yeah right!