Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has taken a deserved beating in the courts recently, but the posturing, pandering putzim in DC aren’t gonna give up any time soon. I’m talkin’ to you, John “I Never called myself a Maverick, except in the title of my autobiography and a few zillion campaign ads” McCain.
Jon Carroll in today’s San Francisco Chronicle:
Senators live in Washington, D.C., most of the time. They mix with rich people and powerful people at private cocktail parties and dinners. They are aware that some of the people they socialize with are gay. They are aware that some of their colleagues, and the aides to their colleagues, are gay. They no more believe that gay people are a threat to unit cohesion than they believe that aliens have established villages on Jupiter.
And yet they have to pretend for their people. Their constituents, their base, still believe that one gay guy in a shower room is going to panic the other soldiers. It’s not true, of course, but the panderers have to keep their base happy in this election year – one-third of the Senate is up for re-election – so they get all misty-eyed about manly showers with manly men. Or something.
Also, they seek to convince voters that gay people are a threat of the American family.
Read the whole column, please.
This”don’t ask; don’t tell” BS is ridiculous just like Prop 8. Do these politicians think that soldiers are wimps? They will take care of somebody, who can’t keep his d— to himself.
I have a life. I don’t care what consenting adults do in bed…