“I ….AM IMMORAL, MY FRIENDS.” (Channeling Queen "We are the Champions" here – which I think is quite appropriate.) My caption for this photo is "my pee-pee is only this big, so none of the gay guys hit on me."OK, so add your own caption in comments.
To Gen. Pace and others, it appears I possess such incredible, magical powers to force people to accept diversity, you know, those who are different, like an X-Man! Oh, wait…that’s the subplot of the series, isn’t it? Hmmm!
The mere presence of an openly gay/lesbian service person would, according to conventional wingnut propaganda, disrupt unity and morale – not to mention send the moronic, IQ challenged, gun-loving, closeted, redneck homophobes screeching into the desert . (Oh, please, you have bad breath and few teeth; we’re just not that into you.
I really don’t get it. Gay people have always fought for this country – and DIED for the freedoms we, GLBT people are still denied. They did so silently, closeted and at great personal sacrifice...like living a double life. Try it sometime.
So, today Gen. Pace is saying he shouldn’t have been so vocal about his “personal moral views” and I would disagree. The reason that DADT is with us is precisely because of homophobic views like his:
In a newspaper interview Monday, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had likened homosexual acts to adultery and said the military should not condone it by allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces.
In a statement Tuesday, he said he should have focused more in the interview on the Defense Department policy about gays _ and "less on my personal moral views."
He did not offer an apology, something that had been demanded by gay rights groups.
Well General, thanks for not apologizing, even though you know that there are thousands of gay men and lesbians fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and many of the almost 4 thousand killed in this “operation” were, in fact, gay and lesbian.
As Sgt. Eric Alva (ret.) writes for the HRC:
It’s this kind of blind prejudice against the estimated thousands of gay and lesbian military personnel that defend our nation each and every day that is truly immoral.
In fact, Sen. John Warner, R-VA., ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a statement today opposing Gen. Pace's comments. "I respectfully, but strongly disagree with the chairman's view that homosexuality is immoral," Warner said.
Shouldn’t the skills and talents of the personnel be taken into account when protecting our country and our freedoms? So, the military’s witch hunt and purge of virtually all the Arabic and Korean translators, making the US more vulnerable to attack than before 9/11, makes perfect sense to you?
Oh General, you are just another short-sighted bigot, and no, don't keep your personal bigotry to yourself. America needs this information because I have friends who are at this very moment putting their lives on the line for this country and right now, they are nothing more than cannon fodder. And for you, a pious dickhead, to spew this shit really pisses me off.
And I say, bring the troops home – not in body bags. You sir, do not deserve to touch the hem of their uniforms. General Pace, YOU are immoral!
Lift the fucking ban, already.
More later.
UPDATE: This isn't going away. Nathaniel Frank has a good follow-up post up HERE.
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