If you’re a garden variety homophobe, you might think the prospect of DADT repeal only involves gays and super-sexy shower scenes. Oh, how wrong you are! Robert Knight is here from Coral Ridge Ministries to explain how DADT Repeal is like Vietnam times forced abortions times Roman lions times infinity:
On the gays in the military issue, the left is deploying its favorite weapon – implying inevitability. That’s the tactic that scares wobbly Republicans who fear they’ll be “on the wrong side of history.” They won’t, if they stick to respecting the military and upholding our God-given, transcendent moral order. They need to see through the liberals’ theft of the moral capital of the black civil rights movement. Is being black really the same as Fred sizing up Larry for “the crime against nature”?
What are Fred and Larry going to do to nature?! Are they going to drill miles down into Nature and cause her to erupt in some sort of spill that will kill off millions of other parts of Nature? That would be awful! Oh, wait, Robert Knight is worried that Fred and Larry are going to have consensual sex. Earth to Robert: Those two have been going at it for years.
Besides, whatever your position is on homosexual activism, this is first and foremost about ensuring maximum efficiency and combat readiness of our armed forces. It’s about giving our servicemen and women the best chance at victory and coming home alive. Injecting homosexuality into the barracks, showers, submarines and “diversity” training cannot possibly improve combat readiness or morale.
Maybe that would be true if our armed forces were made up of crusty old bigots like Robert Knight, but in the real world it’s not, and the troops don’t really care. They just want people who will do their jobs well and have their backs. Only sad, weak little homophobes like Robert Knight are worried about these things, and those aren’t the brave men and women we want in the best military in the world.
Anyway, ready for Knight to sound a bunch of wingnut alarms?
Forcing open homosexuality on the armed forces would destroy the volunteer military and bring back the compulsory draft. Since women are now deployed close to combat, and the only legal reason they are not eligible is their combat exemption, a new draft could include our daughters. And some would face pressure to have on-base abortions in order to complete their tours of duty.
The draft! Ladies fighting! Abortions! This is all so delusional, it’s mindblowing.
Chaplains would be the first victims of Mr. Obama’s homosexualization of the military, followed by anyone who violated “zero tolerance” policies for homosexual acceptance. Bible-believing Christians would quickly find themselves unwelcome in Barney Frank‘s new pansexual, cross-dressing military.
Perhaps Knight doesn’t really understand what the hell military chaplains do. They’re not there to teach the troops about how fags are going to hell and how “aborshun are killin’ babies.” They’re there for spiritual guidance for the troops, in the situations the troops actually face. And newsflash, Bob: Not all the chaplains are bigots like you, because they’re forced to join the real world in ministering to people of many different religious backgrounds in the military. I’m aware that Bob Knight’s version of the Christian faith thinks that it has a personal ownership stake in the United States military, but sadly, that is not the case in this secular nation.
Note how truly stupid Bob Knight is here, also, in that he can’t make a coherent argument and instead starts making gay jokes about Barney Frank. Most teenagers I know have more moral authority when they speak, but if you’re a Fundamentalist, Knight’s probably the smartest one you’ve got, so whatever.
The military is a bastion of traditional values
Oh, like hell it is. Have you ever seen the Navy when they come in for Fleet week?
and symbolizes America’s strength and independence.
One of the things they fight for is our freedom from Robert Knight’s pig ignorance, actually. So yes. There are already many, many openly gay and lesbian servicemembers, and they fight for Robert Knight’s right to believe whatever intellectually malnourished bollocks he wants, every single day. What of equal honor has Robert Knight ever done?
One more wingnut alarm to sound, that of the Crying Masturbatory Fantasy About The Left That Actually Only Exists In Wingnut Minds:
Opening the ranks to open homosexuality will accomplish the left’s dream – undermining the military and transforming it into a wrecking ball against Judeo-Christian morality.
Robert: The fact that you can’t pronounce the words that great liberal thinkers use does not automatically mean they’re plotting against you, so get a bunch of paper towels, wipe up the puddle you’ve just left on the internet, and PLEASE, change your underwear. And no, you cannot sleep with the light on.
(h/t Alvin McEwen)
I’m not too surprised considering that it is someone from Coral Ridge Ministries. The one thing about fundies is their predictable stupidity.
*facepalm*
I’ve heard there’s an expression in the Navy, ‘it isn’t gay when you’re underway’; which I take to mean that horny straight sailors will ‘homosexualize’ each other at sea when the weaker vessels aren’t available. Our benighted Knight will go through an entire box of adult diapers at the thought of these real Judeo-Christian he-men buggering and bumsening on those big Destroyers and going down in more ways than one in those long hard U-boats.
I’d still like to know how he thinks that allowing gays to serve will open female soldiers up to pressure to have on-base abortions. It certainly wouldn’t be the gay soldiers knocking them up.
Good point ETownCanuck. I didn’t notice how bizarre that statment was until you pointed it out.
Knight said “Besides, whatever your position is on homosexual activism, this is first and foremost about ensuring maximum efficiency and combat readiness of our armed forces.”.
No its not, its first and foremost about making a statment that gays are icky and you don’t like them.
Well said, my friends. R Knight doesn’t think much of the military in the first place if he thinks simple disclosure will make the military fall apart.
He’s conveniently forgetting how many gay and lesbians service people did their duty, without all that he’s complaining about happening at ALL.
If our forces in uniform were made aware of what people like this are saying, it could be posited to them that :
1. They are insulted by this assumption that they WOULD fall apart by knowing a fellow soldier is gay. And all bets are off that they could see to their own duties and professionalism otherwise.
2. That they are bigots and MUST harbor such distrust and fear of gay people like R. Knight does. The military is no place to INDULGE such bigotry, and an all volunteer military gives an opt out decision to anyone who has R. Knight’s beliefs.
A military career should mean more to a service person than such a superficial bias. Why would they let the honesty of another soldier be the deal breaker on whether or not they want to serve?
We’re hearing a lot of b******t from people like Knight, and Elaine Donnelly who have never served in the military themselves.
The more soldiers are assured what THEY would look like if they all of a sudden turned lily livered over serving with gay people, the more they’d support the repeal.
Why would a soldier want to look THAT chicken and why would they want the likes of R. Knight telling them that’s what they are if they accept gay people as colleagues and often enough…family.
My partner and I BOTH served in the military: He was in the Air Force and I was in the Navy. I don’t think any of our fellow service members cared one way or the other if we were gay or not. We certainly didn’t parade it in front of them, but they knew we were gay(even straight men have gaydar!)
My partner just found a service member that was on base with him during his stay in Hawaii, on Facebook. They chatted about their service there and then his buddy said “BTW…we all knew you were gay, but it really didn’t matter to us because you did your job and you did it very well.” As long as you are doing what you were set out to do in the service…that is all that matters.