Don't Ask - Don't Tell

So, you might be wondering where I have been this past week, why I have not posted a new blog in a few days. And you will continue to wonder because in the spirit of the awesomeness of "Don't ask don't tell" - I'm not going to tell you. Sure, I might have been spending my time fashioning a giant robot monkey that sings Tom Waits songs atop a giant mirrored piano during full moons. I might even have been reenacting the cemetery scene from "Steel Magnolias" in Wenceslas Square every night at nine. Or, I might have been playing "Robot Unicorn Attack" online while waiting for the newest episodes of America's Next Top Model and The Biggest Loser to download.

But you'll never know. Cause I ain't telling. And don't you DARE ask!

Let's look at this from another view point, shall we? Because I don't think anyone is saying that gay folks cannot be great military leaders, or at the very least pull a trigger. Some of the most famous military bad asses in history have been gay. Alexander the Great, Caesar, Hoover, Margarethe Cammermeyer and so on and so forth. Being gay doesn't make you any less able to be a military minded human being. So, let's try looking at this from another angle. Let's say that all people who have a birth mark on their ass are unable to serve in the military for no reason other than that. Sure, that doesn't make sense - but it is the US Military we are talking about. Now, you wouldn't know if someone had a birthmark just by looking, and asking seems wrong so... we decide to just... let it go. But, when we find out that someone has that birthmark, or we even suspect them of having it, we are going to make sure that they get out - and get out quick.


That doesn't seem fair now does it? Because it is not fair. Men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting other citizens of our country are being told they must lie about who they are on a daily basis. I hope that America has grown up enough to notice how absurd this law is. And, maybe we have. Maybe it is not the gay people we are afraid of, but rather that "Liberal agenda" that some Americans assume goes with every gay issue. Can't we for once just look at this as a HUMAN issue rather than a "liberal" or "conservative" issue? Can't we just look at the people who are signing up for a job that not many of us would do and say, "Thanks! Live and let live."


I don't know. It seems pretty simple to me. But what do I know. 


Okay. I gotta get back to my giant gay robot monkey. Shit! Did I say gay?!