Hiring Quotas

Thanks to Pam Spaulding for a look at the Army's own affirmative action:

The recruiters told people showing interest in being a soldier to keep their homosexuality to themselves.

Military policy states that if a potential service member discloses that he or she is gay, they are supposed to be immediately disqualified.

"We encountered one recruiter who said 'I'll pretend I didn't hear that. Is that right?" CBS4 asked the head of Army recruiting in Denver.

Oh, and don't worry about being a gang member:

A CBS4 employee also went in with a hidden camera and this time suggested he was a gang member.

"Does it matter that I was in a gang or anything like that?" he asked the recruiter.

At first, he was told the Army doesn't accept enlistees who were gang members, but then the senior officer stepped in.

"You may have had some gang activity in the past and everything, ok, and that in itself does not disqualify you," he said.

From what I hear, people with antisocial behavioral patterns, petty criminals and the like are also now acceptable.

Homosexuality, however, is still a "defect" -- if you get caught.

Somebody needs a slap upside the head.