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defrogRemember how repealing DADT was supposed to result in the Armed Forces being crippled by low morale and fear of unwelcome shower sex with gay people?
Here's how that's going so far:
The reactions have ranged from support to indifference. All up, it's hardly the hostile freakout that people like James Inhofe predicted (to say nothing of the big shower-rape orgy that Rick Santorum washoping for expecting).
Of course, not everyone has come out yet, and that may be because local circumstances make it difficult (some stories are reporting that maybe 60,000 armed forces members are gay/lesbian, which seems a little low to me, though that's in part because I've always secretly hoped that it would turn out that 75% of the US military were closeted gays).
Also, the DADT repeal doesn't cover all the bases:
Still, it's a start, and so far so good.
The only thing that really bugs me about this is that all the conservative homophobic nitwits who opposed repealing DADT will probably ignore the "non-event" and either (1) quietly pretend they never predicted doom, (2) loudly pretend all their worst fears actually came true and the Big Liberal Gay Media is covering it up and then prove it with the very first anecdote of troop-related gay-bashing that comes along, or (3) even more loudly complain about how acceptance of the gay lifestyle in the military is proof that America has been seduced and brainwashed by the Homosexual Agenda™ and that the Big Gay Homo Anti-Jesus Army is winning the culture wars and yadda yadda yadda derp derp derp.
Okay, maybe that's presumptious. But I seriously doubt any of them have looked at the non-reaction so far and said, "Gee, maybe I was wrong about gays being a problem – maybe they're not such bad people after all."
I'm happy to be proven wrong, of course. But I wouldn't bet on it.
Dealing with it,
This is dF
Here's how that's going so far:
The reactions have ranged from support to indifference. All up, it's hardly the hostile freakout that people like James Inhofe predicted (to say nothing of the big shower-rape orgy that Rick Santorum was
Of course, not everyone has come out yet, and that may be because local circumstances make it difficult (some stories are reporting that maybe 60,000 armed forces members are gay/lesbian, which seems a little low to me, though that's in part because I've always secretly hoped that it would turn out that 75% of the US military were closeted gays).
Also, the DADT repeal doesn't cover all the bases:
Despite the warm reception she has received from superiors and colleagues, Morgan learned last week that because the military still does not recognize same-sex spouses as dependents, her wife, Karen, will not be allowed to attend an upcoming welcome home ceremony at National Guard headquarters in New Hampshire for deployed troops and their families.
Morgan, 47, who spent a dozen years in the Army on active duty and has been in the National Guard for another seven, also is battling breast cancer and is continuing to lobby to have military benefits extended to families like hers so they will be taken care of if she does not survive.
Morgan, 47, who spent a dozen years in the Army on active duty and has been in the National Guard for another seven, also is battling breast cancer and is continuing to lobby to have military benefits extended to families like hers so they will be taken care of if she does not survive.
Still, it's a start, and so far so good.
The only thing that really bugs me about this is that all the conservative homophobic nitwits who opposed repealing DADT will probably ignore the "non-event" and either (1) quietly pretend they never predicted doom, (2) loudly pretend all their worst fears actually came true and the Big Liberal Gay Media is covering it up and then prove it with the very first anecdote of troop-related gay-bashing that comes along, or (3) even more loudly complain about how acceptance of the gay lifestyle in the military is proof that America has been seduced and brainwashed by the Homosexual Agenda™ and that the Big Gay Homo Anti-Jesus Army is winning the culture wars and yadda yadda yadda derp derp derp.
Okay, maybe that's presumptious. But I seriously doubt any of them have looked at the non-reaction so far and said, "Gee, maybe I was wrong about gays being a problem – maybe they're not such bad people after all."
I'm happy to be proven wrong, of course. But I wouldn't bet on it.
Dealing with it,
This is dF
