Lez Be In Love: Social Progress in the Navy

There was a news story out this week about the wonderful results of allowing openly gay people into the military.  The AP had a nice photo shoot of a female sailor returning to base in Virginia, being greeted by her lover and passionately kissed on the dock.  This is a picture seen through the decades as our fighting sailors return home from the sea.  Except this time both the sailor and the spouse are women.

What wonderful social progress!  Now what was formerly considered unnatural and unfruitful can be displayed in the news, celebrated as enlightenment, featured and feted!  Two beautiful women will not add their DNA to the gene pool, or enjoy old-fashioned marriages to men, or become mothers.  Yes indeed, this is something to celebrate!  No need to bake cookies for the kiddies or drive the kids to soccer practice...because there are none!

One can only wonder how much more social progress we can stand will see in the next twenty years...perhaps the sailor returning from the sea will share a passionate kiss with her spouse...a cow!!  Twenty years after that, who knows?  Perhaps the spouse will be a carrot....or even a banana.

You got a problem with that?   BIGOT!

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Dressing in Drag Sure is Swell

Corporal Klinger and Don't Ask, Don't Tell

The TV sitcom MASH was popular some years ago.  It was about an army field hospital during the Korean war.  One of the soldiers there was Corporal Maxwell Klinger, who desperately wanted out of the army.  So desperate in fact, that he regularly dressed in female garb to prove that he was either crazy or gay.  No doubt Corporal Klinger would disapprove of ending DADT, as that would make his strange behavior acceptable and lessen his chances for a Section 8 discharge.

Tomorrow Congress will vote on reversing the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) policy of military recruiting.  Under this policy, the military would not object to gay soldiers so long as they kept their sexual orientation to themselves.  So what happens if DADT is reversed?  For one thing, openly gay men and women can now serve in the military.  What are the ramifications of that?

No doubt most gays would probably not abuse their new privileges, but I fear the radicals who delight in rubbing their gayness under the noses of the greater society.  I remember once, a bank employee in San Francisco, a gay male, like to show up for work dressed as a woman (though it was obvious he was a male). The bank fired him over it and he sued the bank for discrimination.  I think he won.

Will this kind of behavior now be used to deliberately demoralize the majority serving in our armed services?

If so, I have no doubt the Democrats will insist on a compromise, allowing gay men to dress in WAC uniforms if they so desire.  After all, it if it's bad for America, the Dems will be all for it.