I’m only doing a copy & paste job on this one. No thinking employed. Can’t bear to think about those poor lads who love the Navy and the sea and our country, and who have watched the shit-hearted PeeCee people fuck with it all for their sick ends.
The Royal Navy is to place advertisements for recruits in the Pink Paper as part of a new campaign to recruit homosexual sailors.
The move follows its decision to sign up to the Diversity Champions programme run by the equal rights charity Stonewall, the first time a branch of the armed forces has done so.
Commander Tim Kingsbury, the Royal Navy’s diversity and equality policy officer, said the scheme would initially involve providing commanding naval officers with the necessary information to best understand and support homosexual staff.
He said Navy top brass still “needed to understand better the needs of one group of personnel and to encourage them that they are part of the mainstream”.
“Commanding officers have a key role to play in creating a culture in which gay and lesbian personnel feel confident that they work without being harassed or bullied because of their orientation,” Commander Kingsbury said.
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Posted by Effra on Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:35 | #
There are various versions of the story, and it’s probably apocryphal anyway, but what the hell.
When Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty and was told that a reform he supported was against naval tradition, he growled: ‘Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.’