"Don't get me wrong, I have no issues at all, hell I work closely with a fair few and theyre as professional and normal as the next person" (sic).
How very big of you. Gay people really need validation like that. Next you'll be telling us that some of your best friends are black?
I would agree that this is probably not the most pressing issue facing the MOD, but compared to the grotesque waste of money that is evident across large swathes of the Department, this is nothing. It cost a few quid in coffee, biscuits and travel would be my guess and must be a fraction on what the MOD spends on funding all kinds of other questionable activities. Perhaps what the majority of the posters object to is that it involves gay people and must therefore be a total waste of money and time. If you just said that, it might be a bit more honest?
Would you be saying the same thing if the conference was about ethnic minorities? Somehow I doubt it...