Today, the Gay and Lesbian Issues Examiner reported on Rachel Maddow’s fiery remarks about President Obama’s alleged hypocrisy on GLBT support.
Maddow quoted Obama on his claim that keeping Don’t Ask Don’t Tell “protected military unit cohesion.”
Despite his lack of initiative on overturning this in general, I’d like to point out that this excuse of protecting unit cohesion is no longer valid, not that it ever was.
Andy Stoll, executive director of the Fort Collins’ Lambda Community Center, compared this instance to when they began allowing women into the military.
“It’s the idea that when you’re in battle you’re going to have the distraction of having someone you’re attracted to in the field,” he said.
I’ve covered this before, but reasonably so. Andy and I held the same belief that honestly, people assume that when gay people are in a unit, they think that these individuals are going to be constantly hitting on the other men.
“We are just like everyone else,” said Andy. “We have the ability to control ourselves and to behave in a way that is professional and cohesive to the unit.”
In fact, Andy added that DADT does more detrmiment because there are soldiers out there who will never be able to truly bond with the other soldiers, because “they have this looming fear of whether they are going to be outed or not.”
This issue is moot. WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS. Case in point.
Here is Maddow’s segment:
in the mouth of god, all teeth are wisdom teeth 