So McCain backed away from his previous consistent opinion that DADT should be up to military leaders, leaders who are now in support of repealing it. Not a surprise that he’d do this as he’s getting competition in Arizona and he lost big time in the election last year, the winner of which he’s going to oppose no matter what the issue. My question is, why is no one challenging them to be specific with why exactly gays pose a threat? Conservatives are either being vague about it:

“At this moment of immense hardship for our armed services, we should not be seeking to overturn the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy,” [McCain] said bluntly, before describing it as “imperfect but effective.” -WaPo

Effective with what??

Or just fucking ridiculous:

“In my opinion,” [Chambliss] said, “the presence in the armed forces of persons who demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts would very likely create an unacceptable risk to those high standards.” -TPM

He went on to include some risks: alcohol use, adultery and body art. Shouldn’t they be forced to include research into why this would result from being around homos? There’s a missing step here, at the very least they should be made to say out loud how homo behavior will negatively affect the troops. Like, are we going to seduce them with our homo charms and force them to enter a life of non-stop barracks sex because we always be cruising for same-sex booty? Did they find out turning every soldier gay was #4 on the gay agenda? Of course, women serve in the military too but you don’t see them getting all bothered about their vulnerability to sexual harassment..instead they oppose prohibiting contracted companies from forcing rape victims to stay out of criminal court without calling for ways to stop sexual abuse in the military. I really want them to say it for the record if they’re going to accuse a large group of people of something so serious that our mere presence will diminish the country’s protection from terrorists. Make them say it and make sure they know they’ll be on the record forever so everyone can see how far some people will go to hate on difference. I know it’s not a court of law, but there must be some sort of standard and someone like, I don’t know, the President who called for the repeal in his SOTU, should be calling them out every time they pop up to ensure these morons don’t hijack the debate so that everyone’s arguing over HIV rates in gay men or how much lesbians love piercings and tattoos.