Sending Gay South Korean Troops To Prison For A Year Is Totally Constitutional
Maybe John McCain should seek office in South Korea? Because over there the Constitutional Court ruled 5-4 today to uphold the nation’s ban on gays in the military, because, as McCain has long argued, “The legal code cannot be seen as discrimination against gays because such behaviour, if left unchecked, might result in subordinates being harassed by superiors in military barracks.” The legal code from 1962, meanwhile, doesn’t just oust gay troops; it also threatens them with a one-year prison sentence.
Things like this are why, although this country certainly isn’t where it should be, I am lucky to be living in America in comparison to the majority of Asian/African/Middle-Eastern/Caribbean and Latin American countries. In this country at least you can say a majority of people recognize you’re human. But my thoughts go out to all the South Korean gays in the military who have to deal with this sick law.
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12/21/12 can not get here soon enough.