I’ve decided that Charles Moskos, architect of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” is the biggest dumbass and a jackass to boot. This guy has no fucking clue.
Ignore, for a moment, the fact that DADT is just silly anyway. If it’s not acceptable to have openly gay people in the military, why is it okay to suspend DADT in the event the draft is reinstated? We’re not useful to you in peace time, because we make you “uncomfortable” just by being nearby, because you know we constantly lust after everyone around us, especially you, you hot piece of homophobic straight person with whom I’ll never have a chance. But in wartime, when the camaraderie and cohesiveness of a unit is most critical, then you can use us. And then what? Promptly discharge us when it’s all over?
And you have the nerve to say that we should include gays in the draft because “equality before the law has to supersede the virtue of personal privacy.” We don’t fucking get equality before the law where it really matters – in every-fucking-day life. Okay, we do to a limited extent in certain municipalities, but not as a general principle.
How is saying that you’re gay to avoid the draft any different from so-called “Eat for Peace” campaigns, strategic poppy-seed ingestion, or conscientious objection (can you still do that?)? And are there that many gays in the military that a “stop-loss” policy for pending discharges makes a difference? Are there that many gays in the population that we’ll be sure to lose the war if we don’t conscript every gay man in America?
