Hey all,

Just ran across this lovely column on the Renew America site (yes, I know – I had to shower afterward). Did you know wthat the religious right hates gays so much they’ve now stooped to demeaning even straight soldiers in their lust to go after the DADT repeal? Here are a few choice segments from this odious column:

According to Nartional Review Online, there may be a whole lot of homosexuals who just got an unpleasant surprise. With the repeal of the law prohibiting homosexual service in the United States military, they just lost their “get out of jail free” card.

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According to the Pentagon, “approximately 85% of discharges for homosexual conduct have been made on the basis of statements by the Service member.”

And even more distressing for our would-be limp-wristed enlistees, the Pentagon adds helpfully that “approximately one quarter of these discharges have occurred in the first four months of a Service member’s service.”

Notice that there’s no link to this supposed Pentagon study, and no mention of whether these soldiers who all outed themselves did so out of disgust with having to lie, or if outing themselves means having an email found on their hard drive that indicated they are gay, or…?  Nope, all black and white, trust us, move along, nothing else to see here.

But it gets worse:

In other words, homosexuals – or people who suddenly discovered latent homosexual tendencies when they could use it to parachute out of the military – signed up for the all-volunteer army, got a few weeks into basic and said, forget this noise. I’m outtahere. All they had to do was admit they were gay – whether they were or not – and they got their walking papers along with an honorable discharge.

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Well, all that’s gone now, both for gays and straights willing to tell odious lies about themselves. If a homosexual signs up now, he’s stuck with the whole magilla. Go to your superior officer now and say, hey, I’m a flaming homosexual, I hate the army, let me out of here, the superior officer will say, tough darts, those days are gone. You’re stuck with us now, Nancy-boy.

So not only are our limp-wristed nancy boy gay soldiers getting out of jail free (oh, and extra points for working in so many lovely offensive phrases), but our straight soldiers are all a bunch of liars and cheats too.

It’s instructive to see just how fast the Right will throw you under the bus if they think it will advance their own agenda.

Those days are now shortly to be a distant memory for our homosexual friends. They enlist, they’re stuck with the whole program just like everybody else.

In other words, they had preferential treatment and special privileges, a status and privileges and an exit strategy denied to their honest and straight counterparts. And homosexuals just bargained it away. Now, they will discover to their dismay, they’re back to having equal rights instead of special rights.

So you see, you gay and lesbian soldiers had it all backwards.  You were actually receiving special rights and protections that no one else got when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was in effect, which was just fine with the Religious Right, because you know how they love special rights for gays.  Now you’ve gone and blown it all away.

I know it’s Christmastime, and we’re all supposed to love our neighbors.  OK, I’ll take a page from the Christian Right – I love you guys enough to tell you that I think anyone who has so much misdirected hatred in their hearts is pathetic, and would probably sell his own mother for political advantage – certainly our troops aren’t immune to your venom.

Unlike you, our brave men and women actually want to serve this country, not split it down the middle.  We’re proud of all of our soldiers, straight and gay.

Oh, and Happy Holidays!

–Scott, Gay Marriage Watch