How does it come to this? http://brandon-friedman.dailykos.com/ It's beyond absurd. It's incomprehensible. How does Gates do this with a str8 face?!?! There is no more room for equivocation. Obama won't spend his political capitol on this immediately, but it IS going to change during his administration, probably first term. Stuff like this simply won't stand much longer.
Israel, all of NATO got a clue years ago and the sky didn't fall and God didn't zap them. Our military's myopia is astonishing. Clinton ran into a buzz saw and potential behind-the-scenes mutiny from the JCS I suspect, but the times have changed.
It's all so ridiculous.
I saw a film recently called "Small Town Gay Bars" and it featured, you guessed it, the gay bar up the road from Camp LeJeune (sp?). Showed Marines in the bar telling how the Marine restrictions on the bar are posted on the base........including the bar's address!!!! I trust I need not point out the disconnect there.
It's hard to believe the ignorance, fear, hatred, prejudice; the irrationality and schizophrenia that surrounds the gay issue in our society when such a high percentage of the population is willing to weaken our military and spend millions to corrupt Constitutions in order to hold on to all that fear, ignorance, hatred, prejudice and irrationality.
FEAR, IGNORANCE AND IRRATIONALITY, THY NAME IS RELIGION. Small wonder I haven't attended church for years, even my former liberal "gay friendly" United Church of Christ. I just can't abide "religion" in general anymore.
How can there be any wonderment anymore about the increasingly strong reactions among the gay community?! Insult cannot be indefinately endured.