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Jewish Groups Split
Over Military Ban
New York (JTA) — Like
much of the nation, the
organized American Jewish
community is divided over
President Clinton's efforts to
end the ban on homosexuals
in the U.S. military.
While gay and lesbian
Jewish groups, and the
Reform movement support
Mr. Clinton's intention of
overturning the ban, the
Jewish War Veterans and a
group of right-wing Or-
thodox rabbis oppose it.
Mr. Clinton announced
Friday that parts of the
military ban on gays and
lesbians would be eased for
six months pending detailed
congressional hearings on
his intention of ending such
discrimination for good.
In the meantime, new
recruits will no longer be
asked to specify their sexual
orientation, and homosex-
uality will not automatically
be grounds for outright
dismissal from the military.
But discharge proceedings
against gays will continue,
though court action will be
postponed for the time being.
Of Mr. Clinton's com-
promise, Barret Brick, ex-
ecutive director of the World
Congress of Gay and Lesbian
Jewish Organizations, said,
"If what the president is do-
ing is seeking a way to get
full implementation as
swiftly as possible, that's
fine.
"But if it's merely a
matter of compromising
With bigots," he said, "then
it's ultimately self-defeating
and arguably shows a lack of
leadership. "
To not allow gay men and
lesbians "to serve our coun-
try openly and proudly is a
manifest injustice. The ban
should not be permitted to
stand one minute longer,"
he said.
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum,
religious leader of New
York's gay and lesbian Con-
gregation Beth Simchat
Torah, said that most of the
community agrees with the
two-step approach that has
ended enforcement of the
ban while Congress conducts
a six-month policy review.
"Clinton has done the pro-
phetic thing, by holding out
a vision of the best that we
can be, but he has to be
pragmatic and build a con-
sensus to get us there," she
said.
The Jewish War Veterans
of the United States, which
claims to represent some
100,000 members, opposes
homosexuals openly serving
in the military.
At the group's 1992 na-
tional convention, held in
Baltimore last August, the
members "overwhelmingly"
approved a resolution
describing the effect of open
gays and lesbians in the
military as "insidious," ac-
cording to Sgt. Warren
Dolny, the group's national
commander.
"The major problem is that
when they're (gays and les-
bians) open and accepted,
they may be more aggressive
than they were when they
were not," said Mr. Dolny.
"If a soldier is concerned
about that, he can't function
normally. When another
man or woman looks at you
in the barracks or in the
open showers or toilets, and
Gay and lesbian
Jewish groups
support Mr.
Clinton's
intention.
perhaps you perceive lust in
that person's eyes, you're
not very comfortable. You
can't be in that mental con-
dition," he said.
The JWV resolution called
on the Pentagon to "enforce
regulations which forbid
homosexual acts amongst
U.S. military personnel,"
because 42 percent of
soldiers infected with HIV,
the virus that causes AIDS,
admitted to homosexual sex.
It pointed out that "in the
last 10 years, the Depart-
ment of Defense has expend-
ed $3 billion on AIDS-
infected military per-
sonnel."
When asked why the
resolution cites as its reason
the minority of HIV-positive
soldiers who have had gay
sex and does not address the
fact that the majority are
apparently heterosexual,
Mr. Dolny said that the
membership voted it in,
"and if that's the argument
they picked, so be it."
The JWV's incorporation
papers state that among the
group's purposes are to
"encourage the doctrine of
universal liberty, equal