Don't ask how stupid this is

I listened to Wisconsin Public Radio while on the road today and succeeded in getting myself all riled up. I think that the American military's policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" is absolutely insane.

What they've succeeded in doing with this asinine policy is to discharge thousands of people who only want to serve their country and protect the rights of the weak in the world, oh, and possibly die in that service if necessary.

Got that? They're willing to die if necessary and the U.S. government is telling them they can't serve if they're homosexual. Remember, they may never actually have any same sex relations while they're in the military, but just because they say they're not heterosexual, they're out.

Can I even list the ways this is dumb? Well, for one thing, there was a case just recently when a predatory senior officer drugged and raped several other men. Except maybe he didn't rape them. The victims have said they were raped, but there's an incentive for them to accuse him of that because if the sex was consensual, they're all kicked out of the service.

So what's the truth? The truth is, we need a president who's going to stand up and admit that gays have a perfect right to serve in the military and that homophobic people are the ones who should be discharged, for harboring discriminatory ideas in this day and age. Give me a break.