AIR FORCE KICKING GAYS OUT?

AP---Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base. I don't get this one. Jene (pronounced Jeh-Nay, like in Forrest Gump) is a lesbian who got married in Iowa, where same-sex marriage is legal. She's in the Air Force. So then apparently some cops "stumbled" onto her marriage license during a routine window inspection: Police officers, who said they spotted the marriage license on the kitchen table through a window of Newsome's home, alerted the base. ...and they go and rat her out. So obviously these guys were sent there by the Air Force so they could kick Jeh-Nay out because there were some rumors going around the base. That is some extreme homophobia. Now I could see being a homophobe in the Army or in the Marines because you gotta sleep in foxholes together. A homophobe doesn't want to have to ask a gay guy "do you got my back tonight?" But in the Air Force you have your own plane, you don't have to be next to anyone really except for at lunch. And everyone knows gay guys have the best gossip so they're awesome to have at lunch. I would have figured the Air Force was where gays would be expected to be serving. And to anyone in the Air Force who doesn't like gay people, If you are that much of a homophobe, why did you sign up to sit in something called a cockpit? That sounds like a gay torture/sexual device.