Boehner Thinks Gay Servicemembers Are Either Not American or Inhuman

[kpete]

Boehner Thinks Gay Servicemembers Are Either Not American or Inhuman
By Spencer Ackerman 2/1/10 10:13 AM

This is one weird comment on President Obama’s proposed repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” from House GOP leader John Boehner (R-Ohio):

Boehner predicted that any action on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would lead to a “divisive debate” and “do nothing more than distract the real debate that should occur here about helping to get our economy going again and getting American people back to work.“

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/31/john-boehner-urges-delay_n_443613.html

That’s via VetVoice’s Richard Allen Smith, who observes:

Repealing DADT would allow qualified gay troops who have been discharged as a result of the failed, discriminatory policy to return to work. It would also allow qualified gay Americans who have heard the call to service in uniform to serve their country without sacrificing their integrity.

As best I can tell, either John Boehner doesn’t really want Americans to have jobs in a field in which they are qualified to serve, he doesn’t think gays are real Americans, or he doesn’t think they are people.

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http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3676

[JoseCanyucee]

1. Screw Boehner...

This is all up to Obama. He can put an end to all this nonsense with one swipe of his pen and it's a shame he hasn't done so by now. Think about it... if Obama wants unemployment to drop AND would like a lot of the new jobs to be govt jobs, then there'd be no faster way (after across the board tax cuts) than to allow gays to serve immediately.

[belpejic]

2. Who cares what Boner thinks? (n/t)

[Jennicut]

3. Boner is the inhuman one, what human is that shade of orange?

He has no control over this anyway...it is up to Dems in Congress.

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. Oompa Loompas are human, I guess

[Iggo]

16. Oh, hey!

I didn't realize Boner was on Jersey Shore.

Live and learn...

[BOSSHOG]

4. There doesn't need to be a debate devisive or otherwise

Any fucking debate involving asshole neanderthals has to be devisive. Gays are risking their lives so pukes like boner and limbaugh can be free to hate them.

Whats that line in the Plede of Allegiance? With liberty and justice for all. Conservative don't give a fuck about our country, or freedom, their only concern is themselves.

[Botany]

5. Boner should learn about Alan Turing gay and helped to win WW II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

[Tippy]

6. Boehner is a class A jerk...If republicans had any sense

They would tar & feather him and run him out of the party on a rail...

[pipi_k]

7. I still can't get a handle on what their problem is with gays serving in the military...

unless it involves all those RW straight guys being afraid that some gay guy is going to find them attractive and put a move on them.

Honestly...what the fuck makes them think they're THAT attractive in the first place?

Are they afraid the gays are going to try and "convert" them? Are they so unsure of their own heterosexuality that they fear it can be changed at the drop of a hat (or, in their minds, the soap in the shower)?


I think they're the ones who need therapy.



PS...and yeah...anyone that shade of orange has to be a circus clown

[sdfernando]

10. Part of their problem

And it IS THEIR PROBLEM, is that these homophobic straight a-hole guys think that all gay men are attracted to all men...period. They can't fathom that a gay man might actually find them repulsive to look at. Too bad you can't reason with them and turn it around by asking them if they find every single female sexually attractive.

[LatteLibertine]

8. Boner has spent entirely too much time in the tanning booth

[Armstead]

11. It's only a "divisive debate" if the GOP chooses to make it one

And fuck 'em if they do.

[Zoeisright]

12. If anyone is 'inhuman' it's Boner.

Go back to the tanning bed and STFU, you dick.

[randr]

13. Boners comments are not only unamerican

they put our country at risk since so many well trained soldiers work as translators trying to stop terrorists.
Is Boner siding with the terrorists?

[bullwinkle428]

14. Why does Boner hate the idea of jobs and defending our country?

Seriously, this is how Democrats have to frame the argument! Just put it in the most plain and simple terms possible. None of this nuanced stuff...not in a world of sound bytes and minimal attention spans.

[Touchdown]

15. Kick. He's a douche, no news there. But this is important.

:kick:

[jmowreader]

17. I said the same thing about John Boehner

[Initech]

18. People like Boehner are so busy hating they can't think for themselves.