Two GOP candidates for congress (Ron Kirkland and Randy Smith) explain at a tea party forum how they handled the issue when they were in the military:
Kirkland, a Vietnam veteran, said of his time in the military: “I can tell you if there were any homosexuals in that group, they were taken care of in ways I can’t describe to you.”
Smith, who served in the first Iraqi war, added: “I definitely wouldn’t want to share a shower with a homosexual. We took care of that kind of stuff, just like (Kirkland) said.”
Assuming that Kirkland and Smith are alluding to a "code red" kind of "taking care of them" (and not the way that a 15 year old would assume that they "took care of them," particularly after hearing Kirkland's follow-up comment - “Things don’t go well in military barracks when you have 50 guys sleeping on top of each other”), I think the voters in Tennessee should be directed to Article 93 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice which notes that "cruelty and maltreatment" is punishable by dishonorable discharge and a year at Ft. Leavenworth.
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