Apparently now I'm a homophobe or worse because I don't share the mindless enthusiasm of those who imagine the repeal of DADT is a landmark moment in the nation's history. Look, I essentially support the repeal of the law, the timing could have been better but all in all the fact remains we seem to have arrived at the point where one's sexual orientation is probably of little importance as far as military service goes, if only because gays are hardly the target demographic when it comes to recruiting state sanctioned killers of 'bad guys'. But I view the repeal with a somewhat jaundiced eye for two reasons: one, the way advocates dismiss possibilities of negative fallout from this decision is troubling - these people are either idiots or in the delusional grip of an ideology - as in a professional sports culture, but much more so in a military culture, homosexuality will remain a stigma and aside from re-engineering the species there's not much you can do about that - but if activists within the gay rights movement, who essentially seek an absurd reality wherein no existential differences are noted between gays and non gays, if these ideologues are not happy with the mere repeal of the law and wish to do away with the stigma as well, then you're gonna have problems, possibly big problems; and secondly, the huge disconnect between the insignificance of the cause of gay rights to the overwhelming majority of the population and the amount of attention the agenda garners from the press is both frustrating and galling - and this disconnect is multiplied tenfold when you're talking about the military where maybe 1% of the enlisted population is gay and of that 1% possibly 50% could care less about DADT and will probably remain 'closeted' because coming out just ain't worth the bother - and yet listening to the press you'd think the repeal of DADT has saved the military from an inevitable and ignominious decline.
It's an absurd state of affairs when doing the right thing legitimately seems to be so wrong - I mean, I support the repeal but at the same time I'm shaking my head and thinking what a ridiculous lot of creatures we are.
