Oh, President Obama. I know, I know. It's been one crisis after another ever since your very first day in office. Other than attending your daughters' soccer games, an occasional outing with the wife, and cleaning up Bo's poo on the White House lawn, you've hardly had any downtime at all. And don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of yours. Huge. That's why it's painful for me to call you out on a promise you made during the campaign. It's time for you to step up, Dude, and do the right thing.
The leftover lame policy of "don't ask, don't tell" concerning gays in the military has got to be suspended until the idiots in Congress can change national policy on this issue. Valiant men and women are being expelled from the military in large numbers because they're gay?! How can this possibly be justified in this day and age?
Yes, I know the Republican Rightwing has their boxers/briefs in a twist, thinking that gay soldiers are recruiting naive young privates into the gay community, corrupting their morals and their fondness for the missionary position. Like that's going to work. And the fundamentalist Christians think homosexuals are a slap in the face to God. But let's get real. If they're not telling, and nobody can tell anyway, what difference does it make? Because they're gay do they fly airplanes with less ability? Drop bombs that don't fall? Shoot crooked? Tuck tail and run when there's a battle? Dress up in lacy underwear under their uniforms? Make out in the back of the mess tent? Grope visiting generals? Salute awkwardly? I mean, what is the problem here?
Men and women who have honorably served our country deserve our respect and admiration. What they do in a sexual situation should have absolutely nothing to do with anything. You, President Obama, promised during your presidential campaign to suspend this policy and you haven't. Why? You're the Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States of America. You could sign an executive order today, Independence Day. Are you too afraid of the political boogey man to take action on this problem? Every single day that you wait to make good on this campaign promise, more people are losing their careers in service to our country. This is shameful. Pitiful. And you could stop it with a stroke of your pen.
Already we prevent gays from being married - except in a few enlightened states, from adopting children as a couple, from the legal protections that are afforded any wild and crazy heterosexual couple without any suspicion whatsoever. This is wrong and you know it.
Fix it!
The leftover lame policy of "don't ask, don't tell" concerning gays in the military has got to be suspended until the idiots in Congress can change national policy on this issue. Valiant men and women are being expelled from the military in large numbers because they're gay?! How can this possibly be justified in this day and age?
Yes, I know the Republican Rightwing has their boxers/briefs in a twist, thinking that gay soldiers are recruiting naive young privates into the gay community, corrupting their morals and their fondness for the missionary position. Like that's going to work. And the fundamentalist Christians think homosexuals are a slap in the face to God. But let's get real. If they're not telling, and nobody can tell anyway, what difference does it make? Because they're gay do they fly airplanes with less ability? Drop bombs that don't fall? Shoot crooked? Tuck tail and run when there's a battle? Dress up in lacy underwear under their uniforms? Make out in the back of the mess tent? Grope visiting generals? Salute awkwardly? I mean, what is the problem here?
Men and women who have honorably served our country deserve our respect and admiration. What they do in a sexual situation should have absolutely nothing to do with anything. You, President Obama, promised during your presidential campaign to suspend this policy and you haven't. Why? You're the Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States of America. You could sign an executive order today, Independence Day. Are you too afraid of the political boogey man to take action on this problem? Every single day that you wait to make good on this campaign promise, more people are losing their careers in service to our country. This is shameful. Pitiful. And you could stop it with a stroke of your pen.
Already we prevent gays from being married - except in a few enlightened states, from adopting children as a couple, from the legal protections that are afforded any wild and crazy heterosexual couple without any suspicion whatsoever. This is wrong and you know it.
Fix it!
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