Saturday, March 10, 2007
H/T JoeMyGod
Cpl. Matthew Sanchez, 36, now a member of the Individual Ready Reserve, has made national headlines since, as a student at Columbia University, he stood up to war protesters who publicly vilified him for his military service while administrators there refused to intervene, citing freedom of speech.
Sanchez also appeared at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington where he was photographed with his arm around Coulter, who caused a stir when she gave a speech at the conference in which she slammed Democratic presidential contender John Edwards using a vulgar word for a gay man.
On March 6, four days after Coulter’s comment, homosexual blogger Joe.My.God. published the picture of Coulter and Sanchez and alleged that Sanchez had spent the mid ’90s acting in gay porn films such as “Man to Men” under the screen names Rod Majors and Pierre LaBranche.
The Marine Corps is investigating Matt Sanchez to see if he violated Don't Ask, Don't Tell. For me this a tricky case. They apparently want to determine if he participated in porn films during his service. That is a fair inquiry. It doesn't matter if it is straight or gay porn, you know you can't do that when you are an active member of the military.
I fear that this guy, whose politics I abhor, can be booted out just because of his past. He apparently isn't "gay" but was gay for play. He made gay porn just for the money, but apparently has relations now with women. Makes him kind of sleazy IMHO, but that was in his past, and if he didn't engage in these movies after he joined the military, it shouldn't be any of their business.
This is also something Matt Sanchez doesn't seem to grasp very well. The people like Ann Coulter who he is attaching himself to, are followed by a legion of people who hate "his sin" and hate the sinner as well. It's because of the radical right wing that people with backgrounds like Sanchez can be booted out of the military when discovered to have a gay background.
As a veteran, who has been there, I respect anybody who decides to wear the uniform of the military, for the risks to their life that they are taking, and do honor Sanchez for that sacrifice. I do question his choice of friends though, and I am not referring to gay men here.
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