Wellllp, I guess this settles it. Now that the House has approved the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell (which aside from being a really great potential name for a suburban screamo band's new album is also one of the biggest pieces of entrenched discrimination still left in this great proud above average nation), everyone is going to quit the military and we'll be leaving ourselves vulnerable to hoards of marauding villains like Chinamen and Magneto and gym queens from West Hollywood.

Right Wing Watch (via Crooks and Liars) has the details, which I'm just gonna go ahead and paste at length, because it's all too good to miss. 

While debating the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), of “terror-baby” fame, claimed that the policy’s repeal may doom the military and the nation as a whole. Gohmert blasted the recent Pentagon study, which showed that an overwhelming number of military service members do not oppose repealing DADT, and said that the military could potentially lose “many thousands, or tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands” if the policy is repealed. Gohmert uses no scientific evidence of his own to back up his claim that “hundreds of thousands” of troops could leave, even though the Pentagon’s own polling found that the vast majority of troops do not have problems serving alongside gays and lesbians, and 92 percent of those who believe they have already served alongside gays did not believe that their “units functioned poorly as a result.”

Gohmert went on to suggest that the House, which today voted to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell 250-175, is opening up the floodgates to a disorganized and ineffective military. According to the Congressman, “when militaries throughout history of the greatest nations in the world have adopted the policy that it’s fine for homosexuality to be overt…they’re toward the end of its existence as a great nation.”

Aside from being a really confusing sentence in terms of syntax, that last bit is pretty mind-boggling science fiction shit. Just think about all those militaries where this has happened before... all those, uh, countries that went through this exact same thing. Like, uh... And by the way, Louie Gohmert?  Sounds a little French to me pal. I think he might protest too much here, if you know what I mean. (I mean he's a closet case.)

Actually, the full quote is even weirder:

And to my friend who said history would judge us poorly, I would submit if you look thoroughly at history, and I’m not saying its cause and effect, but when militaries throughout history of the greatest nations in the world have adopted the policy that it’s fine for homosexuality to be overt, you can keep it private it’s fine if you can’t that’s fine too, they’re toward the end of its existence as a great nation.

There you have it folks. Game over, man. Game over.  I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Last I checked there are no homos in space. Actually, that reminds me of a great idea for the Battlestar Galactica fan fiction blog I also write for, I gotta run.

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