Sarah Palin’s Objection to DADT Repeal is Timing
February 8, 2010 by Gay Agenda News Team
Gosh, so she’s open to it otherwise? I’ve been fascinated by the GOP reaction to the prospect of repealing DADT. Other than John McCain and Beauregard Sessions, the Republicans have been awful careful to not seem anti-gay on this one. And Palin has been the most surprising, suggesting that the biggest problem she has with the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is the timing:
PALIN: I don’t think so right now. I’m surprised that the President spent time on that in his State of the Union speech when he spent only about 9 percent of his time in the State of the Union on national security issues. And I say that because there are other things to be worried about right now with the military. I think that kind of on the back burner, is sufficient for now. To put so much time, and effort, and politics into it, unnecessary.
Right, like she did the math. (Not to mention, that “throw me down the stairs my shoes” sentence: “I think that kind of on the back burner, is sufficient for now.” Would it kill the Republicans to finally elect a president half a brain?) That aside, it’s telling that one of the lead conservative presidential hopefuls for 2012 felt the need to not oppose DADT on principle, but rather to oppose the “timing” of it “now.” Great, so is Sarah Palin willing to commit to when she thinks the Congress should repeal DADT?
I object to Sarah Palin.
For those who would deny equality, there never has been a good time and there never will be a good time.
In the middle of 2 wars is not the time to be discharging highly qualified mission critical solders based on nothing more than prejudice. The resistance is not about all of those excuses about the timing, or troop cohesion, or showers. This is about the need to maintain the cultural taboo, and this is one of the major battles of the culture war.
When all of the excuses for the taboo have been exposed as nothing more than prejudice, the taboo dies. As long as they can say we should be punished by being made to hide the most important relationships in our lives in the military, or we can’t have marriage equality, or adopt, they can justify denial of equal treatment in other areas as well. So this institutionalization of the taboo won’t die easily. They need this law to maintain the taboo.
It is time to stop accommodating prejudice in the laws. That was the purpose of DADT. As long as we continue to accommodate it, we teach that it is valid. It is not. Prejudice has no place in our society and especially not in our laws. It is long past time to end the institutionalization of prejudice. End it now.