Book Claims Army Nixed Hendrix For "Homosexual Tendencies"

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• 1 - Chris Evans

  Jul 31, 2005 at 3:54 pm

  Heh. I'm sure if there were to be a draft, they wouldn't let gays out this time. So ridiculous. They won't let the gays serve that WANT to...but I promise you if there ends up being another draft, all of a sudden gays DON'T disrupt the cohesion of the troops.

• 2 - Natalie Davis

  Aug 01, 2005 at 1:34 pm

  Hmmm... your nation is still at "war" and continues to expel gay soldiers. Doesn't sound like your anti-gay military's leaders are all that smart.
  
  

  Gary Gates, a statistician at the University of California at Los Angeles, estimates there are about 65,000 gays and lesbians currently serving in the military, accounting for about 2.8 percent of all personnel. He estimates that at least 25 gay soldiers have been killed in Iraq.
  
  Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, a conservative advocacy group that opposes gays serving in the military, said a better way to avoid the cost of replacing soldiers who are discharged for being gay is to make it very clear to people who enlist in the military, including [Sgt. Robert] Stout [who was wounded is Iraq and is being discharged from the army for being gay], that they are ineligible to serve if they are gay.
  
  "I honor and respect his service to this country, but the fact that he's wounded really doesn't change the underlying fact. ... He is not eligible to serve," Donnelly said, adding that there are many reasons why people aren't eligible to serve. "This is just one of them."

  
  
  And it's a stupid one.
  
  
  As for Hendrix, if the allegation is true, then he was a liar. IF the allegation is true...

• 3 - b rob

  Aug 01, 2005 at 2:54 pm

  hendrix never was in the army, he wasn't drafted his brother was the one drafted form the family, Jimi and his bother Lauris made a deal and lauris went to the military predending to be Jimi,they played the whole u.s. goverment, since lauris went to the army, after he got out he got a spot for manager in the Jimi Hendrix experiance, became pretty famous and then split 1/4th of jimis earning, to become rich, i can't belive noone else knew that! but its all really confuseing

• 4 - Lono

  Aug 01, 2005 at 3:16 pm

  first off, B Rob - you are nuts. Secondly, I could see the possibility o the story. Hendrix was a very sensual and passionate person. He was also some kind of sex god, so really the news doesn't weird me out much.

• 5 - amanda

  Feb 18, 2008 at 7:45 pm

  hendrix rocked he could play the guitar like no other go hendrix

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