Gay marines follow in wake of lesbian home-coming kiss | Mail Online
By Laura Cox
An openly gay marine has caused a stir online after sharing the traditional home-coming first kiss with his boyfriend in Hawaii.
Sgt Brandon Morgan of Oakdale, California, was captured as he jumped into the arms of boyfriend, reported by International Business Times to be called Dalan Wells.
The pair embraced and locked lips as they were reunited following the end of Morgan's Afghanistan tour with the US Marines.
Welcome home: Sgt Brandon Morgan's embrace with
boyfriend Dalan Wells has gone viral in the blogosphere after it was
posted on Facebook.
The picture went viral after being posted on the Gay Marines Facebook page and popular gay blogs Joe.My.God and Towleroad, receiving more than 18,000 ‘likes’ and almost 4,000 comments since Saturday.
‘Welcome home and thank you for your service!’ wrote one commenter. ‘This is an awesome picture! Love knows no gender, race, creed or sexual preference.’
Disgusting. It's enough to make you vomit.
ReplyDeletePromoting a gay agenda is just sickening. PC is killing the military.
ReplyDeleteReligion is becoming a wedge issue to justify all sorts of hatred and division. No wonder I don’t want organized religion in politics and I don’t want it embedded in our laws. Religion is a choice, being gay is not! Hate is a choice as well. So I really am glad these men had the opportunity to be who they are regardless of some stupid religious doctrin or someone’s stupid bias. Religious views should never interphere with the dignity or rights of another person. So my hat goes off to these boys. Welcome home!
ReplyDeletethat disgusting picture will change the corps forever adn not for the good.
ReplyDeletelets all vote them out of office in november
29 years I served in the Marine Corps . . . this picture sickens me.
ReplyDeleteMy problem is not that this Marine is gay, but that he is so inflammatory about it. Was it really necessary to run up and straddle the boyfriend? I don't want to see heterosexuals get that graphic in public, either!
ReplyDeleteGrow up, old school jarheads. It's the new melinium. Once upon a time, the corps didn't like black people either. This don't ask/tell change is long over due (regardless of how u feel about it). THEY didn't choose to be gay, just like YOU didn't choose to be white. Do you love your parents or wife or kids? Well, it's the same thing. Please learn to respect others and help make this world a better place. SemperFi
ReplyDeleteIntolerance goes both ways, whether you agree or not, having a moral opinion against something, is just as valid as being for something. The intolerance being shown, is by you. Instead of acknowledging others opinions and then stating your own, you verbally insult others for having been taught a set of morals. Be they right or wrong, is not my place, or yours to judge.
DeleteOld school jarheads? I believe that is exactly what has shaped the Corps into the universally feared fighting unit that it is. Can you seriously tell me that Chesty would approve of this picture? Don't fool yourself because gay is accepted everywhere else on this morally twisted planet, I would hesitate, I would have a hard time laying down my life so that my "gay" brother may live. At least now we know who to throw on the grenade...
DeleteThat tpye of sickness should not be allowed in our Crps or in public. This is why all the good Marines are getting out. What kind of fearce fight force are we to condone this type of behavior. "Sick, Sick, Sick". Marines of the pass would be rolling over in the graves. All the fighting we have done to perserve tradition and we go to "GAYS" in the military being open. And we speak of moral ethics WOW.
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ReplyDeleteallow this, next there's fraternization in line units, this will compromise the units effectiveness and cost lives.
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If this guy was in my (infantry) company and I saw this, the respect I would need to show would be compromised. Who knows where that would manifest itself because sooner or later, I would discount him, or his order, or his judgement. Hopefully for all those around us, it would be during a formation or during a police call and not under fire or maneuver. I know I am not alone in this concern, I don't personally disrespect gay people, but their values and morals are not mine and sooner or later that single difference will rear its ugly head. You can't take my morals away from me and knowing that his could accept this that is not mine, truly shakes the camaraderie or Esprit de corps that bonds brothers the way the Corps does - the way the Corps demands - for the unit cohesion necessary to fight effectively. This guy could be a pogue for all I know and his fellow pencil pushers may not care, but on the front lines friends, this is not in keeping with the highest standards of the Marine Corps. Some day this difference will cost lives whether you free-thinking PC types want to admit it or not, and as always, it will be us traditional, morally conscious Marines that will be freely condemned for something we believe in - kinda like you think we are doing to you now. There is a term in the 03xx ranks that would take care of this issue once and for all: let's take it to the tree-line.
ReplyDeleteGay men have been serving in the military since its beginning. We have always had gay men in our foxholes and front lines. We just did not always know they were gay.
ReplyDeleteAnd many gay men have paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
When I look at this picture, I see a man who has just returned from serving his country on the front lines fighting alongside his Marine brothers against our enemies. He has earned the rank of Sergeant so he obviously has served his country well.
This man is a hero. He does not owe any of us any apology for his joy at returning home from fighting our war to the one he loves. Instead, we owe him a great debt of gratitude.
Welcome home, Marine. Thank you for your service to our great country.
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I served 9 years in the Marine Corps and I have to say that I would be proud to stand alongside this Marine in combat as long as he served his country and his platoon as a true "Devil Dog" Marine brother. What he does in his bedroom back in the States is not important when you are focused on 1) your mission and 2) staying alive.
Somehow I like it better when the WMs kiss....
ReplyDeleteBoy things have changed, PDA in unfiform used to be a big no-no. In fact I was taught or from the era that even frowned on crying in uniform - you had to display a sort of professionalism.
ReplyDeleteI don't like any group - straight or gay exploiting their sexuality in public. What you do in your room is none of my business. I don't want to see anyone "macking on each other in public". Some people are also not prepared to try to explain homosexuality to young children.
I think a simple hug and kiss after a long deployment (for either sex) while in uniform is appropriate anymore than that goes against original PDA code. I am not a hater at all, just a little modest and prefer people to be descreet in public regardless of orientation.
Semper Fi