There may be a place for this sort of publication, but in my opinion it does not belong on the AFSC Web pages and does not speak for me as a Quaker. After reading the former, I thought I had mistakenly picked up a different magazine in reading the latter. Emma Goldman said that if she couldn't dance it just wasn't her kind of revolution. That's how I feel after reading James Carroll's piece about the need for equality in the military for gay men. Just imagine how that poverty rate would decrease if military expenditures were for self-defense and not part of the New World Order scheme to make the world safe for despoiling.
Militarism is predicated upon brute aggression and the violation of human rights.
You can't have it both ways. Equality and aggression can't exist side by side in the present climate of US hegemony. Name one military operation of any scale that hasn't had as its corollary the rape of women and the deaths of the young and elderly. I look forward to a day when military service has to do with bona fide self-defense or serving the needs of communities. Perhaps then we will have evolved into a culture that accepts differences of sexual orientation as natural.