DADT Advocates Claim AIDS Will Infiltrate Infantry
July 28, 2008 by James Hipps
If you’ve tuned in to C-SPAN recently you may have caught a glimpse of an interesting hearing. It involved bands of violent lesbians, “forced cohabitation” with gay men, the spread of AIDS and “skin to skin” contact. Oh my! What on earth was the topic of this discussion, and why was it being conducted in the hallowed confines of the people’s Congress? No, it wasn’t Sen. Larry Craig’s last conversation with Pastor Haggard. It was a House Armed Services personnel subcommittee hearing on “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Personally, I am surprised that this is still a point of contention. There are gays and lesbians that work in all sorts of environments. Consider that only 20 years ago AIDS was seen as a “gay disease.” Or that gay bars could be raided and people arrested for simply being gay. Our understanding of gay and lesbian sexuality has become more nuanced. The more we learn about our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, the more people realize what was always true … they have the same aspirations and capabilities as any other group. Which makes it increasingly disgraceful and embarrassing that they are denied their basic civil rights, among them the right to serve their country.
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