After Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Residence objected to the possibility Barack Obama would appoint a gay man as Secretary of the Navy, Echidne pointed out Donnelly’s double standard on sexual assault.
Earlier this year, in Congressional hearings about gays in the military, Donnelly spoke of “forcible sodomy” and “a group of black lesbians who decided to gang-assault” a fellow soldier.
Three years ago, when Rumsfeld was proposing to create a victim’s advocate position for women who reported sexual assault, Donnelly dismissed this as a license to make false accusations of rape: “A junior female soldier has an affair with an infantry officer in Iraq. When the relationship cools she revengefully accuses him of sexual assault. Her e-mailed complaint activates the Office of the Victim Advocate in the Pentagon. OVA officials pressure the accused officer’s commander to remove him from his unit on the eve of battle.
“At the Naval Academy, a female midshipman willingly parties with a classmate. Both have broken rules against alcohol and sex in Bancroft Hall, but to escape punishment she accuses him of sexual assault. The male midshipman is threatened with criminal prosecution and dismissal.
“Meanwhile a Marine is barred from his home because his wife told authorities she fears domestic violence. Civilians funded by the Office of Victim Advocate help obtain a court protective order, but not counseling to save the marriage.”
So apparently the only assaults that take place in the military (or military families) that really happen are same-sex ones.

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