{"id":878,"date":"2010-09-22T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=878"},"modified":"2010-09-22T18:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T23:35:39","slug":"supporting-the-dont-askdont-tell-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2010\/09\/supporting-the-dont-askdont-tell-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Don’t Ask\/Don’t Tell Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, 21 September 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, the US Senate failed to repealthe militray’s “Don’t Ask\/Don’t Tell” policy.<\/p>\n

Why did they fail? Well, it turns out they needed 60 votes to get rid of this policy, but they were four short. Surprisingly, every Republican voted against the bill, which has got to be the first time (in a long time, at least), that Republicans have stopped a defense appropriations bill.\u00a0 See, every year, congress authorizes millitary spending for the next year but, oddly, Repulbicans suddenly didn’t feel like giving the armed forces $726 billion. That’s funny. I thought most Republicans supported the military. Oh well, I guess they figure it’s better to withhold $726 billion to the men and women serving in our military than to allow gays to serve openly.<\/p>\n

Most disappointing is Senator John McCain. He claims that the Democrats were just slipping in the repeal of this policy to cater to their base. Oh man, that’s so terrible that elected officials were acting in the way they thought their constituents would want them to act. Shame on you, Democrats!<\/p>\n

If you want to see an elected official who doesn’t care what the American thinks, check out McCain’s gentle slide into craziness:<\/p>\n

In this interview,\u00a0me thinks McCain doth protest too much<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How could you vote against this, McCain? I thought you were a level headed, fair-handed politician (at least, as far as politicians go). After all, you picked a female running mate <\/a>during your bid for the presidency. And, back in 2004, you voted for a college dropout<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McCain, according to this article<\/a>, said that it would be premature to vote to repeal the policy until the results of a study (studying the effects of ending the policy) is completed. Oh man, that’s so reasonable. Where was McCain back in the ’60s? You know, the 1860s…it sure would’ve been nice to have his logic around when congresswas thinking of ending slavery: “I don’t think we should end ownership of humans until a study regarding the effects of ending slavery is completed.” Makes perfect sense to me.<\/p>\n

So then I got to thinking, what kind of rude, insensitive, homophobic people in the military could possibly want gays to keep quiet? Christians!<\/p>\n

Yes, Christians.<\/p>\n

I therefore propose a solution, in the interests of fairness: Congress should initiate a “Don’t Ask\/Don’t Tell” policy regarding Christianity. Because, see, if you want to believe that someone you’ve never seen or heard is all-powerful, created humans 6,000 years ago, loves foreskins, produced a crazy book full of contradictions, absurdities and appalling acts of violence and that he then got a chick named Mary pregnant with his son who was already alive, and that that guy came back, zombie-style, and now heads up heaven and wants us all to worship him…that’s fine with me.<\/p>\n

Just don’t tell me about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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