"Don't ask, don't tell"

I am completely and utterly baffled about what pissed you off. Slowly: If I were in the military, I would considering it insulting to hear someone, either civilians or my higher-ups, imply that asking me to work alongside gay soldiers would be too much for me too handle, the implication being that I was an unenlightened grunt who couldn't deal with someone different.

 

JFC. I'm done.

 

WTF are you so pissed off about???

Answer the question instead of having a temper tantrum about it.

 

I swear sometimes military people, God bless them for their service, have the world's most out-of-control persecution complexes.

 

Right.

 

These.

 

Good Frank Rich column today in The Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/opinion/07rich.html?em

He seems to agree with some of my early posts on this thread that this is going to be an enormous watershed turning point for gay civil rights. Public sentiment has absolutely turned, and people are being forced to scramble to somehow defend what is nothing more than pure bigotry. Most of them, Rich points out, have been remarkably silent. Other than a few holdouts, the right is giving up on this battle, which worked so well once upon a time for Karl Rove. I love the fact that some of the GOP senators who for years hid behind their "support of the military brass" are being exposed.

Simultaneously, Prop 8 is going to be struck down all the way up the 9th Circuit chain, where the pro-Prop 8 side is just getting slaughtered right now. It's about time to invoke the 10-run rule. And then it's the Supreme Court's turn. Could be one they teach in the history books.

 

I was about to post the same thing, Waylon. Beat me to it.

 

Eric Massa single handedly sinking revision to gays in the military policy.

 

When Nancy Pelosi's kids leave their nooks and go to Afghanistan, she should have the right to demand who is in the military.

I trust our officers to know what is best for our country. Their asses are on the line, not hers. End of story.