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SLDN's "Stories From the Frontlines" [message #62325]

Wed, 12 May 2010 15:24

The Gay Deceiver

Really getting into it

Location: Canada
Registered: December 2003
Messages: 869

I suspect that The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's (SLDN) most recent media onslaught in support for the dismantling of the U.S. Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy will ultimately be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back, so to speak, and garners the critical, and necessary, 15 Congressional votes necessary for it's eventual repeal.

"Simply Brilliant" doesn't do adequate justice to this widely covered campaign, and frankly The Vatican's own media combine (amongst recent others I could think of) would do well to take a page or two from whichever (unidentified) agency authored this remarkable media blitz on behalf of the SLDN.

I link here to the first in the daily series of "Letters to Barak Obama", dated April 26, 2010, from individuals whose lives have been impacted by DADT and their thoughts on its' repeal.

Stories from the Frontlines: Former Air Force Major Mike Almy

http://www.sldn.org/blog/archives/Mike-Almy/

Each story is unique; many heart-wrenching; some from little known individuals, and as a consequence, not particularly newsworthy in of themselves; others readily identifiable in their own right, or because of their family; all worthy of our attention on their merit alone.

A "Click" on the appropriate screen during the Flash-presentation on the uppoer portion of the parent web-site's home-page brings up a "Today's letter to First letter" index page, which, for simplicity purposes, I link to below:

http://www.sldn.org/blog/c/letters/P0/

Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada

[Updated on: Wed, 12 May 2010 19:37]

"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"

Re: SLDN's "Stories From the Frontlines" [message #62326 is a reply to message #62325]

Wed, 12 May 2010 15:50

chrisjames147

Really getting into it

Location: U.S.
Registered: November 2009
Messages: 630

Is it any wonder that our military struggles to make advances in the Middle East? The story of this major isn't unique, he is among so many talented and dedicated military personel dismissed from the service for being gay. Guess that only leaves the dummies to run things.

I think the United States is a swamp of special interest groups of which the military version of the right wing Christians is the deepest pile of s**t. This don't ask don't tell policy was a political avoidance of the issue from the very start. The powers that run the American military are just afraid of gay people. It's God's will. Bulls**t.

So if the DADT policy isn't revoked then a dozen years from now the Taliban will have incorporated an entire segment of it's forces into a gay only army that will kick some American ass. That statement is about as absurd as the policy itself.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)

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