I have to hand it to Alex Nicholson and his comrades at Servicemebers United - they are keeping the abortion also known as the DADT survey disseminated by the Pentagon in the news and on the blogosphere. Now, a petition is online demanding a refund of the $4.4 Million squandered on the biased and homophobic survey orchestrated by DOD and the Pentagon. I urge readers to sign the petition - I already have - and encourage them to urge friends to do likewise. Again, the petition can be found here.*
Aiding them are other bloggers like Pam Spaulding and John Aravosis who have picked up on the possibility that LGBT servicemember - if allowed to serve openly - would be segregated. That's right, a black president backing a plan of separate and unequal. Will there be drinking fountains like the ones in the photo above except relabelled as straight and gay? And Obama wonders why the LGBT increasingly cannot stand him - well in addition to the fact that he's a liar who does not keep campaign promises.
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Apparently, the senior brass at the Pentagon doesn't like being shown to be not only homophobes - which many of them clearly are - by down right stupid. Did they seriously believe that this survey would not create a firestorm? Do they seriously believe that long term Westat will fall on its sword, if you will, and take full responsibility for the outrageously insulting and homophobic questions? The more we see of the incompetence and stupidity at the Pentagon, the more it looks like it's the senior bras and not gay service members who need to be discharged. John Aravosis sums it up well:
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In a briefing this past Friday, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell appeared to allude to the possibility of segregating gay troops if and when the ban is lifted . . . Today, Morrell - who has been less than truthful about Pentagon efforts on DADT in the past - took umbrage at our post.
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Morell said the suggestion the survey could lead to segregation is "inflammatory nonsense" from groups trying to discredit the survey, which is "not helpful" for the Defense Department.
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With all due respect to Mr. Morrell, a Bush appointee, it's not my job to be "helpful" to a Defense Department that treats my community as second class citizens, and regularly undercuts its own commander in chief. As for Morrell's assertion that we are responsible for this notion that the Pentagon might be considering segregating gay troops, the idea didnt come from me, it came from the Secretary of the Army last October.
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It's been nine months since the Army Secretary's comments created a mini firestorm of concern that the Pentagon was seriously considering segregating gay troops, as an option for how to implement a repeal of DADT. Perhaps the deafening silence from Mr. Morrell about the Secretary's comments, and his decision to let such concern fester for nine months, in addition to his rather in-artful wording at the briefing last Friday, played a small role in people's concerns.
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In a briefing this past Friday, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell appeared to allude to the possibility of segregating gay troops if and when the ban is lifted . . . Today, Morrell - who has been less than truthful about Pentagon efforts on DADT in the past - took umbrage at our post.
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Morell said the suggestion the survey could lead to segregation is "inflammatory nonsense" from groups trying to discredit the survey, which is "not helpful" for the Defense Department.
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With all due respect to Mr. Morrell, a Bush appointee, it's not my job to be "helpful" to a Defense Department that treats my community as second class citizens, and regularly undercuts its own commander in chief. As for Morrell's assertion that we are responsible for this notion that the Pentagon might be considering segregating gay troops, the idea didnt come from me, it came from the Secretary of the Army last October.
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It's been nine months since the Army Secretary's comments created a mini firestorm of concern that the Pentagon was seriously considering segregating gay troops, as an option for how to implement a repeal of DADT. Perhaps the deafening silence from Mr. Morrell about the Secretary's comments, and his decision to let such concern fester for nine months, in addition to his rather in-artful wording at the briefing last Friday, played a small role in people's concerns.
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