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Remember Duncan Hunter- possibly the flakiest of the 2008 Republican candidates for President?

He hasn't gone away.

Talking about the military, Hunter said, "there has to be a special bond there, and I think that bond is broken if you open up the military to transgenders, to hermaphrodites, to gays and lesbians."

Well, first and foremost: WTF?

Second: Really, what's the problem? Representative Hunter, you're going to have to do better than, "Because they're icky poo and they don't belong in our club," to justify keeping them out.

Third: transgender and transvestite I'll give you, to a certain extent... but hermaphrodites? Hermaphrodites, as separate from transgendered people? Are there really so many multi-gendered individuals in the United States that any particular soldier would be likely to encounter one in his or her whole LIFETIME?

(And I think, if there were, (NSFW LINK ALERT) WLP's comics would sell much better than, alas, they do...)

Seriously, Mr. Hunter, although sex is a major primary motivator of human beings, it's neither the sole motivator nor the most powerful. Just as most male soldiers do not rape female soldiers (although rape in the army IS much, much higher than in the general population, and needs to be stomped upon heavily), most gay or lesbian soldiers will not rape straights. In fact, in most cases gays and lesbians won't even proposition most of their fellow soldiers- because, just as straights are not attracted to absolutely everything of the opposite sex, so gays are not attracted to absolutely everyone of the same sex they encounter.

And I'm quite certain that any functional hermaphrodites of military age in the United States will be making far too much money in the porn industry for the military to be attractive, so Mr. Hunter can quit worrying about that, too.

(Note: Yes, there are genetic hermaphrodites, and people who are born with sexual organs for both genders. However, in virtually all cases one or the other set of organs is effectively nonfunctional- and quite often BOTH sets of organs are nonfunctional. And usually one set or the other dominates the development of the rest of the body- which means, with clothes on, such persons tend to look predominantly male or female. And all of these cases are quite rare, which means the problem of military service isn't all that likely to arise. Fully functional born hermaphrodites are rare to the point of myth- and surgically created hermaphrodites almost equally rare- which makes it all the more curious why Rep. Hunter is so worried about them in particular...)