Oh, the irony. First class bigot Elaine Donnelly is complaining that the lifting of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy is making non-gay people “feel they are not welcome” in the military. Because all straight people feel unwelcome if they’re not allowed to throw gay people out of their groups. Or something.
Parshall: We’ve got Leon Panetta, ‘June is called Gay Pride Month,’ and Leon Panetta in the Department of Defense is heralding gays in the military. Wow, I really would love to look into a crystal ball and see what we’re going to have in terms of numbers going down the road.
Donnelly: This is entirely inappropriate because the Secretary of Defense is treating a tiny minority of people in the military who are now allowed to be open, even though previously they were not even eligible to be in the armed forces, to have an event like this, which we predicted by the way. We predicted this a long time ago; this is a manifestation of LGBT law in the military. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender policies and celebrations in the armed forces, this is all part of it…
Parshall: Leon Panetta celebrating in so-called Gay Pride Month that which makes up less than three percent, to the best of my knowledge, I’ve never heard of a Heterosexual Month and they make up ninety-seven percent of the military.
Donnelly: Right. What happened to the notion, ‘we just want to serve in the military, we just want to be quiet and modest and discreet, just like everyone else’? What happened to that? Well of course that was all phony because the LGBT activist groups know exactly how to intimidate other people, make other people feel they are not welcome, their views are not welcome, and name calling occurs quite a bit. That’s pretty much part of the pattern and it’s one of the reasons why the 1993 law regarding gays in the military should have been retained.
Help, help, we’re being repressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
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Robert B.
June 25, 2012 at 11:13 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hey, you know what really made people feel unwelcome in the military? Kicking them out of the military.
Just sayin’.
jeremydiamond
June 25, 2012 at 11:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
To borrow a retort from supporters of Black History Month, it’s because EVERY MONTH is Heterosexual Month.
Gregory in Seattle
June 25, 2012 at 11:34 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well, racial integration of the Armed Forces made many whites feel unwelcomed. I believe the offical response was, “This is the army, not Piss Ant, Mississippi!”
Artor
June 25, 2012 at 11:42 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“What happened to the notion, ‘we just want to serve in the military, we just want to be quiet and modest and discreet, just like everyone else’?”
Has this nutjob ever known anyone in the military? I seem to remember hearing an endless collection of dick jokes & bragging about banging this woman or that, picking up some ho’s on leave, etc, ad nauseum. EVERY month in the military is Heterosexual Month.
Modusoperandi
June 25, 2012 at 11:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s making the straights so uncomfortable, they can’t even go through with the next Tailhook!
Alternately:
It’s making the straight so uncomfortable, knowing that there are gay men in the shower with them, running the rigid bar of soap across their steamy, hot thighs; righteous buttocks clenched against the unyielding, foamy moistness.
dogmeat
June 25, 2012 at 11:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Wait a second, they’re whining because they want to feel welcome in the military?
Ahh, yes, the warm fuzzy feeling I felt on that first morning in boot camp. The company commander lovingly screaming at us to get our asses up and out, the way he warmly shouted incoherent cute and endearing rants at us, half of which I didn’t understand because of the combination of two hours of sleep, his rather thick accent, and the noise of the garbage can that he lofted (with love mind you) 25-30 feet down the middle of the barracks as it rang out “we love you, welcome to the military, we love you!”
I also remember thinking, imagine how uninviting this place would be if teh gay were allowed to be here? Whew, that would have been tough to handle.
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plutosdad
June 25, 2012 at 11:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“we just want to be quiet and modest and discreet like everyone else” is exactly the military recruiting slogan they use around here. I bet that’s what everyone thinks when they join up. Especially Marines. That modesty and discreetness is their biggest selling point.
Bronze Dog
June 25, 2012 at 11:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
There’s a meme in there that needs to be killed. Heterosexual does not mean being discrete. Homosexual does not mean being flamboyant. Of course, the reason he uses it is to compare the least objectionable heterosexual archetypes to the most objectionable homosexual stereotype.
Most of the most objectionable sexual language I hear in relatively public settings tends to come from privileged mysogynist heterosexual males. They’re awfully quick to clutch pearls if anyone outside their group uses even mild language.
d cwilson
June 25, 2012 at 12:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Because as we all know, a person’s civil rights are directly proportional to their percentage in the population. That’s always worked out so well throughout history.
gshelley
June 25, 2012 at 12:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Along with every who paid any attention to the matter at all. Seriously, is she trying to get some sort of credit for realising ahead of time that once gay people didn’t have to hide their sexuality, they might stop hiding their sexuality?
Sastra
June 25, 2012 at 1:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@dogmeat
You owe me a new keyboard. Was your nym originally selected by the same company commander?
I think that, in this situation, “quiet, modest, and discreet” should be translated as “tries to pass as straight.”
Dr X
June 25, 2012 at 2:55 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If you were to listen to Janet Parshall regularly, you could not be faulted for concluding that the entirety of Christianity boils down to:
Hating Muslims and opposing creeping Sharia
Hating gays and opposing the gay agenda
Hating secularists and opposing their persecution of Christians, who they’ve already made the most persecuted people on the planet.
And President Obama is promoting Sharia, the gay agenda and persecution of Christians.
Oh, one thing I left out: Muslims in the Middle East are converting to Christianity in droves and they’re being martyred and the whole thing is purposely ignored by the secularist, sharia-loving, gay-loving, Obama-loving, Christian-hating press.
Christians across the US are fed a steady diet of this crap five days a week by Parshall and her lunatic guests like General
Boinkerwhat’s-his-name. Parshall is not an insignificant figure in the evangelical wingnut world and she deserves recognition as one of America’s most prominent and influential pathological liars for Jesus.jnorris
June 25, 2012 at 3:05 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The opening line of the RWR article suggests the numbers for pre and post repeal enlistment and re-enlistment don’t make Elaine Donnelly’s case. I believe her continuing to beat that horse is the last chance she has to make any money off the topic unless its picked up by more wingnuts or Faux news.
I can’t wait for her to discover atheists and Muslims in the military!
John Hinkle
June 25, 2012 at 3:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Dr. X,
Yes, just so. Parshall’s daily 2 hour program is broadcast nationally. She’s a significant voice in the evangy world. This Elaine person is a periodic guest for all things military+gay, and together they produce a confirmation bias loopback that even the Grateful Dead’s best roadie couldn’t fix.
Oh, and you forgot one element of her Christianity: this is a Christian nation, and one her semi-regular guests that provides proof for this is that world renown historian Doctor Barton.
Doug Little
June 25, 2012 at 4:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
/pedant. Sorry had to do it.
Modusoperandi
June 25, 2012 at 5:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
/pedant. You forgot a comma.
John Hinkle
June 25, 2012 at 6:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Doug: Ok, I concede.
MO: Exceptionally funny as usual.
Doug, I have a telecomm background. We use loopback as a term for a signal that is used for testing a circuit locally. Feedback comma I reckon is more of a music/live band term. The Dead? Ultimate live band.
Doug Little
June 25, 2012 at 7:06 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Nice Modus.
Yeah, just like the loopback device in the TCP/IP protocol. I was going to let you get away with it until the band reference popped up. You could have said.
“produce a confirmation bias loopback that even Louis Pouzin couldn’t resolve.”
I don’t know that’s my best shot.
billydee
June 25, 2012 at 7:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“A manifestation of LGBT law?” Good heavens!* I wasn’t asked when the gay agenda was passed, now we’ve gone and set up our own set of laws and no one told me.** What is this world coming to?
I think if LGBT law would manifest itself in the military, it would first show up in sexier, flashier uniforms.
*Not to be taken literally.
**Although if LGBT law results in my getting more dates on a Saturday night, I’m all for it.
Dr X
June 25, 2012 at 8:27 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@John Hinkle:
Oh yeah, she love her Doctor Barton longtime.