Since I subscribe to various right wing-nut email lists, I usually get to see the daily anti-gay rhetoric fill my email box. Today’s nonsense drivel comes in the form of an American Family Association email about repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
Gays showering with straights? Absolutely.
If President Obama, congressional Democrats, and homosexual activists get their wish, your son or daughter may be forced to share military showers and barracks with active and open homosexuals who may very well view them with sexual interest.
What is so humorous (and scary) about this fear mongering is that gays and straights have showered together in the military for decades; we have showered together in college dorms, gym locker rooms and KOA campgrounds for Chrissake. I also like all the retired white military guys quoted as voicing opposition to removing DADT.
Again, the anti-gay fight against such matter as marriage and repealing DADT has very little to do about protecting the “sanctity” of marriage and “sexual predators” in the military and has everything to do with the wingnuts’ concerns about the legitimization of homosexuality.
And, if your son or daughter is old enough to hold their own in one of our two wars, a parent’s last fear should be with whom they are showering. Wouldn’t you be more worried about who is shooting at your children? That gay showering next to them may be the same soldier to prevent that bullet from hitting them.
I don’t know whether to laugh or be angry at this email. I just know that these groups will stop at nothing. Proceed with caution.
Of course, I am still surprised (and I guess not surprised) that I have O+ blood — making me a universal blood donor — and I am still not allowed to give blood.
