Don't Ask Don't Tell: A New Direction in Human Rights!

Unless you happen to be living under a really, really, REALLY big rock, at the stroke of midnight, September 20, 2011, the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, was repealed, thus taking the world's most powerful military in an ethical human rights direction that, quite honestly, it should have traveled many years before this day.

On this day, as one anonymous sailor stated, the pictures of his pretend girlfriend were replaced, without fear of condemnation or harassment, by pictures of his 'same-sex' life partner.  On this day, he no longer had to hide his life, act as though he were a 'normal' hetrosexual male, a hetrosexual SOLDIER!

I don't ever remember my 'normal' husband being told not to talk about me, or pretending that I didn't exist, for fear of being kicked out of the military.  I don't remember protests about our 'normal' marriage, or him joining the military as a 'normal' hetrosexual male???

As 'about bloody time' this day is, I still find it incredibly frustrating that, this was ever even an issue!  Was it not incredibly hypocritical that this country proudly sent our soldiers to war torn countries to fight and die for human rights, yet on home soil, those same soldiers, were neglected of having any?

Who, are we as a 'civilized' human race to ever condemn our own kind for a matter that, simply should not be one?

Naturally, the religious argument of homosexuality, or the act of, being a sin, is at the forefront of 'many' people's minds, but, from what I know, we are all God's creatures, love the idea or hate it, it's a fact!   I can think of far more abominable acts of human kind, that are forgiven every day, other than, a man just loving another man!

Oh, and as for this absolutely ignorant 'hearsay' discussion filtering around the web, that 'if homosexuality is allowed in the military, then people should be allowed to marry animals'...firstly, I say, you ignorant dumb a*ses and, secondly, you're right: some spouses are animals, animals who abuse, cheat, beat, rape their spouses and children!

Who someone chooses to love is none of my because if that someone is willing to selflessly die for my country, so that the 'rest of us' are protected from harm, and continue to live with the freedoms we do now, then in my eyes, that someone is a true military hero, a soldier of the US Armed Forces.

Crikey!