And open letter to You
I'm fairly certain that most of the people on my FList here know about what happened in the Senate yesterday. When the Defense Authorization Bill was unable to be moved out of the Debate phase and into voting.
There were two things that primarily caused this, the DREAM Act, which helps to provide for education for immigrants. And the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Ah yes these two devious plots by the Lefty-Commy Socialists to get people through school who have a desire to do so, and to allow Gays and Lesbians to serve in the Military. One really does have to wonder how these people sleep at night, what with wanting to improve our economy and our ability to defend our nation.
I don't know that much about the DREAM Act, so I'm not going to speak about it here.
I do know about DADT, though. I served in the United States Marine Corps for 5 years, I served with men and women, some of whom were heterosexual, some of whom were not. I know how much it hurt those who were not to have to live a lie.
Because that's what DADT does. It forces the Men and Women in the Military who are homosexual to live a lie, every single day of every single year that they are serving. And they are serving honorably, and bravely. You may think that what they are forced to do isn't all that tough, I mean we all have the little lies that we live with every day, and it's nothing too bad or onerous. But they're not living with a little lie, or even a large number of little lies, they are living under a huge, monstrous, monumental lie.
Imagine what it's like to live that lie.
Imagine going to work, every day, after waking up next to the person that you love more than anything else in the world and pretending that they don't exist. Imagine going on a deployment to Afghanistan or Iraq, and either being unable to call or email that person, or if you do, being forced to pretend that that person is just another friend. Because you know that if anyone picks up on who you're talking to, and how much you care for them, you're going to be kicked out of the service that you have devoted your life to. Imagine what it's like to be the lover of the service member. To be unable to go to any of the functions of your lover. To be unable to celebrate his or her triumphs with his or her coworkers. To be forced, when your lover is out on that deployment, to sit at home, without any support from others whose loved ones are away, because your lover is gay and if you show up to even one spouse-meeting then you will destroy your lover's career.
How can we call ourselves an enlightened nation when we do that to our citizens?
How can we call ourselves Human Beings when we embrace policies and laws that are all but designed to destroy someone like that?
How can we call ourselves great, when we won't even bend a finger to allow people to love who they love?
I'm not asking you to accept gays and lesbians into your own social circles. I'm not asking you to be anything you aren't. All I'm asking, is that you look to yourself, and decide if you are able to live with yourself, knowing that by supporting DADT, or California's Proposition 8, you are destroying someone's life. Every bit as much as if you were holding a gun to their heads and pulling back the hammer.
There were two things that primarily caused this, the DREAM Act, which helps to provide for education for immigrants. And the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Ah yes these two devious plots by the Lefty-Commy Socialists to get people through school who have a desire to do so, and to allow Gays and Lesbians to serve in the Military. One really does have to wonder how these people sleep at night, what with wanting to improve our economy and our ability to defend our nation.
I don't know that much about the DREAM Act, so I'm not going to speak about it here.
I do know about DADT, though. I served in the United States Marine Corps for 5 years, I served with men and women, some of whom were heterosexual, some of whom were not. I know how much it hurt those who were not to have to live a lie.
Because that's what DADT does. It forces the Men and Women in the Military who are homosexual to live a lie, every single day of every single year that they are serving. And they are serving honorably, and bravely. You may think that what they are forced to do isn't all that tough, I mean we all have the little lies that we live with every day, and it's nothing too bad or onerous. But they're not living with a little lie, or even a large number of little lies, they are living under a huge, monstrous, monumental lie.
Imagine what it's like to live that lie.
Imagine going to work, every day, after waking up next to the person that you love more than anything else in the world and pretending that they don't exist. Imagine going on a deployment to Afghanistan or Iraq, and either being unable to call or email that person, or if you do, being forced to pretend that that person is just another friend. Because you know that if anyone picks up on who you're talking to, and how much you care for them, you're going to be kicked out of the service that you have devoted your life to. Imagine what it's like to be the lover of the service member. To be unable to go to any of the functions of your lover. To be unable to celebrate his or her triumphs with his or her coworkers. To be forced, when your lover is out on that deployment, to sit at home, without any support from others whose loved ones are away, because your lover is gay and if you show up to even one spouse-meeting then you will destroy your lover's career.
How can we call ourselves an enlightened nation when we do that to our citizens?
How can we call ourselves Human Beings when we embrace policies and laws that are all but designed to destroy someone like that?
How can we call ourselves great, when we won't even bend a finger to allow people to love who they love?
I'm not asking you to accept gays and lesbians into your own social circles. I'm not asking you to be anything you aren't. All I'm asking, is that you look to yourself, and decide if you are able to live with yourself, knowing that by supporting DADT, or California's Proposition 8, you are destroying someone's life. Every bit as much as if you were holding a gun to their heads and pulling back the hammer.