Finally...after blogging about Lt. Dan Choi, Victor Fehrenbach, and dozens of other patriotic American service men and women who lost their jobs and pensions (if they didn't get killed or lose limbs first)....it's FINISHED. THANK YOU to the Democratic Leadership, and the 6 Republicans who voted to end debate and bring this to an end.
And of course, as expected, the anti-gay fund-raising letters and right-wing haters are just bubbling over with vitriol.
My favorite so far:
"...We will no longer be able to bail out these other emasculated armies because ours will now be feminized and neutered beyond repair, and there is no one left to bail us out. We have been permanently weakened as a military and as a nation by these misguided and treasonous Republican senators, and the world is now a more dangerous place for us all." - American Family Association hate group radio host Byran Fischer.
Mr. Fischer, I hope when you google your name and my blog pops up with your ignorant quote...that you take a long hard look at the accompanying picture. If these gay men are your definition of "feminized and neutered," you better take a long look in the mirror, buddy...
And oh, while you're at it...you can apologize the the thousands of women who have ably served our military and sacrificed for our nation...all without weakening our military one iota.
In fact, I'll bet any one of them could kick your ass.
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Thom, the real crux of idiocy -- and of the kind of lies the opponents of gay rights tell relentlessly -- is this line from Fischer's rant: "they could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn’t allow them to serve in ours."
From the get go they've been trying to promote the idea that repealing DADT would allow gays to flood into the military FOR THE FIRST TIME. It is a typical ultra-right tactic to create fear. And large numbers of people buy it. Through willful ignorance or total gullibility they buy it, in the face of Adm. Mullen's major public statement that he had been serving with gays since the 80s; in spite of the 14,000 gays and lesbians who have been thrown out of the military since DADT began (they have to have been IN to have been thrown OUT, don't they).
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