Now the President needs to sign it and implement it ASAP.
Since it’s such a historic day, let’s laugh together at Bryan Fischer of the hate group American Family Association, whose response is SUPER crybaby. First the headline:
Benedict Arnold Republicans destroy military and our national security
Oh god, so funny, can’t type, laughing too hard. Here’s what he says:
We are now stuck with sexual deviants serving openly in the U.S. military because of turncoat Republican senators.
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Had the cloture vote failed, we would still have sane moral and sexual standards governing military personnel policy. But sadly those days are gone, perhaps forever.
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For those who say the Republican Party does not need a litmus test for its candidates, you just lost the argument and frittered away the strength of the U.S. military at the same time.
The armies of other nations have allowed gays to serve openly in the military. The reason they could afford to do this is simple: they could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn’t allow them to serve in ours.
They knew they could count on the strength, might, power, and cohesion of the U.S. military to intervene whenever and wherever necessary to pull their fannies out of the fire and squash the forces of tyranny wherever they raised their ugly heads around the world.
Yeah, we always have to bail out those fag Israelis.
Those days are now gone. We will no longer be able to bail out these other emasculated armies because ours will now be feminized and neutered beyond repair, and there is no one left to bail us out. We have been permanently weakened as a military and as a nation by these misguided and treasonous Republican senators, and the world is now a more dangerous place for us all.
God, Bryan is such a wuss!
Emo till the end:
The draft will return with a vengeance and out of necessity. What young man wants to voluntarily join an outfit that will force him to shower naked with males who have a sexual interest in him and just might molest him while he sleeps in his bunk?
This isn’t a game, and the military should never be used, as is now being done, for massive social re-engineering. The new Marine motto: “The Few, the Proud, the Sexually Twisted.” Good luck selling that to strong young males who would otherwise love to defend their country. What virile young man wants to serve in a military like that?
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Rarely can you point to a moment in time when a nation consigned itself to the scrap heap of history. Today, when the Senate normalized sexual perversion in the military, was that moment for the United States. If historians want a fixed marker pointing to the instant the United States sealed its own demise, they just found it.
I, for one, welcome Bryan Fischer’s new imaginary homosexual overlords.
I am so glad this had been repealed. No one should have to hide who they are in any instance. For those of you that want to serve our country I commend you. You are doing what I myself cannot do. May you always be protected as you protect us that cannot protect ourselves. Stand proud on this momentous day and continue to serve the country that you are so proud of! You will have my support to the end. Who you choose to love does not make a difference.
Today was historical in a good way. It’s a good day to point and laugh at Fischer, John McCain, and other speedbumps on the road to progress and equality, too.
Bryan Fischer must have had that *ready*! He’s going to be one of history’s villains, and I think he knows it.
I want to send Fischer and other right wing men to GEICO’s drill-sergeant-turned-therapist lately. “You know what makes me sad? YOU DO!” They’ve gotten so whiny, and they accuse more liberal men (not to mention gay and bi men) of being effete!
I’d like to become a “homosexual overlord,” if applications are still being taken . . . and my first order will be for Bryan Fischer to “man up!”
Bryan Fischer said: “We will no longer be able to bail out these other emasculated armies because ours will now be feminized and neutered beyond repair, and there is no one left to bail us out. We have been permanently weakened as a military and as a nation . . .”
But WAIT!, a few months ago Bryan said this: “Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious enough to carry out his orders, but that homosexual solders basically had no limits and the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on whomever Hitler sent them after. So he surrounded himself, virtually all of the Stormtroopers, the Browshirts, were male homosexuals.”
I strive to be a proper homosexual, but now I don’t know whether I’m supposed to be “feminized and neutered” or “savage and brutal and vicious.”
‘might molest him while he sleeps in his bunk?’ — here Fischer is projecting his own moral character onto us. BTW asswipe Bryan, my partner served in the Army for over 30 years, is a full colonel, and has multiple awards and decorations. He never molested anyone, is anything but feminine or sexually ‘twisted’ and was invited to visit Israel by the IDF–you know those Hebrew fags who can’t fight their way out of a wet matzoh ball. Bryan Fischer–f**k OFF!
Why the answer, Richard, is: whichever one suits Fischer’s purpose in a given argument. Which is precisely what makes him a bigot.
God, Brian Fischer is a RIOT! Unbelievable that people would still believe such tripe. But he can just stew because DADT is DEAD…it would have been better gone two years ago, but hey, better late than never.
Im trying to figure out who I want for “homosexual overlord” Wayne, Evan, rachel Maddow or Dan Savage…
Want cheese with that whine? Cryin’ Bryan is worse than Boehner….
“What young man wants to voluntarily join an outfit that will force him to shower naked with males who have a sexual interest in him and just might molest him while he sleeps in his bunk?”
Oh, i don’t know. Perhaps all the gay ones, and the ones who-wanna-be-straight-but-ain’t?
Richard. you beat me to it. can you now provide the comment where he mentioned hmosexual overlords?
I’m going to nominate Ricky martin. either him or the waiter at the steakhouse in buenos aires that i went to. Or maby ben affleck.
Yeah, ben affleck.
Fischer certainly does have a lot of entertainment value, now doesn’t he…
“Rarely can you point to a moment in time when a nation consigned itself to the scrap heap of history.”
Except for all those other times America said Yes to equality and shitheads like Fischer replied by screaming AMERICA IS DOOMED!
“The new Marine motto: “The Few, the Proud, the Sexually Twisted.””
I do hope he calls some actual Marines sexually twisted to their faces. I hope I am there to see it. I hope I have a face shield and a plastic poncho handy because, yuck, what a mess.
And is it me or does Mr. Fischer refer to Strong, Virile, Young men about 50,000 times?
Fischer IS hilarious…and, oddly, useful to us. Every side needs buffoons, and he plays the part well. Just (and this is by comparison) saner and more decent (again, by comparison) than Fred Phelps, he is the sort of guy who makes his side look like…well…what it is.
Sadly (yet hilariously) I have spoken with a few people who are part of that, oh 1/4 of Americans (thats between 75 million and 80 million, a sobering thought, even if their number is shrinking and aging rapidly) that AGREE with Fischer. . . .
We should be preparing for some sort of backlash. Worse than when MA got Marriage, or VT Civil Unions (which it is noteworthy was such a shock at the time that the reaction was bigger than that for real marriage later) or the 2003 overturning of the Sodomy laws. For a big chunk of the population, this really IS the fall of a great civilization. More than a few nuts un Mississippi and Alabama feel this way. And with the makeup of the incoming congress, well…we should be on guard.
That depressing note aside, the big news, and the news that offends the people I have spoken to the MOST, is not even the repeal of DADT…it is the fact that the SOLID MAJORITY of Americans are WITH US on this issue!
I suspect, from reading posts here over the time I have done so, that I know a lot more of these people than several of the regular posters. And, they are…mortified. Imagine if the anti marriage National amendment was ratified, the sodomy laws reintroduced, Hate Crime national legislation repealed and DADT REintroduced in one day. To many of our opponants, THIS is the level of shock and angst they are experiencing today. One man, whom I loath, but can still carry on a cordial conversation with, was honest, and very perceptive in one commnent yesterday; “Now you people can go in the Army. I can’t believe it. Ya’ know, yall’ got that Civil Union law in Illinois last week and the news barely mentioned it, not even FOX. Like it was normal or somethin!”.
And it dawned on me…he is right! Yeah, yeah, I know, it is a separate waterfountain, etc. True on a certain level, but, still, Civil Unions are the governement saying “yes, your relationship and family are real”, and my bigoted “fried” was correct, the lack of newswothyness of this, paired with the “well, that should have been done years ago” attitude of most Americans on DADT is a sign of how far we have come.
The Bryan Fischers of America know this. That is why they are so in shock. His over the top “oh, this is the end of civilization” blah, blah, blah sounds (correctly) hilarious to us. But to him and people like him, yesterday really was a revelation.
They realized that for all the battles yet to fight, and all the years of struggle for us ahead, they have lost the culture war. Gay men and Lesbians can serve openly in the most repsected institution of the right, the military (and yeah, they respect it even more than the Church) and civil unions laws pass and most people react with a yawn.
The publishers of this site are correct, we HAVE passed (not at, passed) the “tipping point” on gay rights. And the Fischers of the country know this :)
This is a wonderful day!
Those idiots think it is just fine to use the military to do social engineering in other countries.
Imagine! The Nazis and the Soviets couldn’t destroy the US, but gay servicemembers can do it just by showing up for work. All thanks to the votes by “traitors” like Sen. Dan Inouye, who suffered grievous wounds serving in World War II, or Sen. Jim Webb, who served in the Marines in Vietnam.
To be fair though, Bryan Fischer also sacrificed for his country. As a young man, he held the rank of “undergraduate” while serving in the unit known as the Philosophy Department, which fought bravely at the battle of Stanford U.
And now he’s fighting a battle against reality, logic, and ordinary human decency.
Steven….this nutjob…is a STANFORD grad?
That is the most…disturbing, thing I have read in a long time.
wow