US Judge Says Corrective Rape can Cure Lesbians

November 29, 2010

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Writing on a conservative news website, a US judge has been accused of proposing corrective rape for lesbian soldiers in the military.

Joe Rehyansky, a Vietnam veteran, wrote on The Daily Caller that permitting lesbians to serve in the US military despite the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy prohibiting LGBT from openly serving, because it would “convert” them after exposure to straight men.

The Daily Caller was too late in removing the remarks, which were picked up by other sites.

He also said that men were naturally more promiscuous than women and “it fell to men to swing through the trees and scour the caves in search of as many women as possible to subdue and impregnate – a tough job but someone had to do it.”

He added: “Gays spread disease at a rate out of all proportion to their numbers in our population and should be excluded from the military.”

He continued: “Shouldn’t the overwhelmingly straight warriors who answer their county’s call be spared the indignity of showering with other men who achieve lascivious enjoyment from the sight of those lithe naked bodies, and who may be tempted to seek more than the view?”

Rehyansky said lesbians have a low-sex drive and should be permitted to enter the military because of their “medical and administrative specialties.”

He ended with: “My solution would get the distaff part of our homosexual population off our collective ‘Broke Back,’ thus giving straight male GIs a fair shot at converting lesbians and bringing them into the mainstream.”

The response against Rehyansky was fierce. Blogger Amanda Hess said: “Once all the lesbians are easily accessible in one place, an army of straight dudes will turn them all straight, presumably through that time-tested tactic of subduing and impregnating women against their will.”

Image by Lola Broadus (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons