Back in action: after joint chiefs of staff chairman Peter Pace called homosexuality immoral, seven retired officers came out. Their new duty? Showing America how honorable gay service members are .

The Advocate. The National Gay & Lesbian NewsmagazineNbr. 2007, January 2007

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Back in action: after joint chiefs of staff chairman Peter Pace called homosexuality immoral, seven retired officers came out. Their new duty? Showing America how honorable gay service members are .

"For the first 36 hours we couldn't keep up with all of the e-mails and telephone calls," remembers retired Army chaplain Col. Paul W. Dodd. He's talking about the explosion of outrage that swept the ranks of gay and gay-friendly veterans after Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, opined that "homosexual acts" are "immoral" and thus unacceptable in the military.

With his incendiary comments, made during a March 12 interview with the Chicago Tribune's editorial board, Pace went beyond t...

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