BIG GAY AL’S BIG GAY ARMY (SLIGHT RETURN)
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defrogIn case you missed it, the House Armed Services personnel subcommittee has been revisiting the whole “gays in the military” thing, possibly because the military is running out of people willing to sign up and fight one of two wars.
Nice to know the arguments in favor of banning gays are still as atavistic and bizarre as ever.
Jon Stewart reports.
And incidentally, whose idea was it to invite Elaine Donnelly, who has no military experience at all but runs some fictional right-wing think tank that exists to “prove” that women should never serve in combat and gays should never serve at all. I think she was there mostly for comic relief:
Not that I’m complaining, mind. I’m glad they invited her instead of someone who might sound like they knew what they were talking about, or someone whose concept of homosexual stereotypes didn’t date all the way back to the 1950s. Why not? It’s not as though Congress is actually going to let gays openly serve – especially during an election year.
Naturally, Donnelly has since blamed the media and the Democrats for making her look like a complete idiot. She also complains that no Republican senators showed up. The fact that she name-dropped Larry Craig as an example of the Homosexual Agenda To Terrorize Airport Washrooms was a coincidence, I’m sure.
And so much for gays in the military. Except for the ones who are already in covertly, of course. Which is the great thing about banning gays from military service. All they have to do is lie about their sexuality to get past it. So for all Elaine knows, 80% of the military is already gay.
Oh snap!
DISCLAIMER: 80% of the military is not gay. As far as I know. On the other hand, if it were, we’d have won both wars, like, years ago. QED.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a peacetime combat veteran. So I get to make jokes like that.
I love a man in uniform,
This is dF
Nice to know the arguments in favor of banning gays are still as atavistic and bizarre as ever.
Jon Stewart reports.
And incidentally, whose idea was it to invite Elaine Donnelly, who has no military experience at all but runs some fictional right-wing think tank that exists to “prove” that women should never serve in combat and gays should never serve at all. I think she was there mostly for comic relief:
Donnelly ... warned of "transgenders in the military." She warned that lesbians would take pictures of people in the shower. She spoke ominously of gays spreading "HIV positivity" through the ranks.
"We're talking about real consequences for real people," Donnelly proclaimed. Her written statement added warnings about "inappropriate passive/aggressive actions common in the homosexual community," the prospects of "forcible sodomy" and "exotic forms of sexual expression," and the case of "a group of black lesbians who decided to gang-assault" a fellow soldier.
Not that I’m complaining, mind. I’m glad they invited her instead of someone who might sound like they knew what they were talking about, or someone whose concept of homosexual stereotypes didn’t date all the way back to the 1950s. Why not? It’s not as though Congress is actually going to let gays openly serve – especially during an election year.
Naturally, Donnelly has since blamed the media and the Democrats for making her look like a complete idiot. She also complains that no Republican senators showed up. The fact that she name-dropped Larry Craig as an example of the Homosexual Agenda To Terrorize Airport Washrooms was a coincidence, I’m sure.
And so much for gays in the military. Except for the ones who are already in covertly, of course. Which is the great thing about banning gays from military service. All they have to do is lie about their sexuality to get past it. So for all Elaine knows, 80% of the military is already gay.
Oh snap!
DISCLAIMER: 80% of the military is not gay. As far as I know. On the other hand, if it were, we’d have won both wars, like, years ago. QED.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a peacetime combat veteran. So I get to make jokes like that.
I love a man in uniform,
This is dF
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on 2008-07-31 05:56 pm (UTC)Doesn't everyone? ;)
and for the record, I'm a wartime vet (served stateside during Desert Storm) and I also love a woman in uniform
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on 2008-08-01 02:10 am (UTC)My recruiter actually used the "the uniform is a total chick magnet" sales pitch on me. To my credit, even at the tender age of 18 I knew better. But I can safely say that in 3.5 years of service, I have enough empirical evidence to prove that it's NOT just the uniform.
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on 2008-07-31 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Former high school cadet,
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