The war against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell continues in the popular culture:

HT: Left Flank

The first thing I dislike about this clip is that it once again reinforces the stereotype that the US military has nothing better to do than conduct witch hunts against gays serving in the military.  I’m sorry to burst their bubble, but as surveys show many US military members know of gays that serve in the ranks and do not care.  However, the majority of people also support the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy.  This is proof that a witch hunt for gays is not on going and in the Stripes article this guy was actually upset that a witch hunt for gays was not happening:

Belkin said he believed the finding that one in four servicemembers knows of a gay colleague shows the current policy isn’t working.

“No one is supposed to know a gay peer,” Belkin said during a phone interview Thursday. “To see that was a surprise.”

Personally I have never seen a witch hunt against gays in the military.  I have known of people in my prior units that were gay but as long as they weren’t marching in gay pride parades and hitting on other soldiers no one cared.  I have never been in unit that had some one chaptered for being gay and only personally know one person who had to chapter someone for being gay.  I did have a soldier who wanted to be chaptered for being gay even though he wasn’t because he wanted to get out of the military.  

So the stereotype in this clip of the military hunting down gays is not true.  If anyone has a witch hunt atmosphere going against them, it is overweight people due to the Army’s sometimes funky height weight standards.  I am willing to bet anyone that the military is losing more good soldiers being chaptered due to the height weight requirement than from being discharged for being gay, yet Hollywood and all the activist groups could care less about them.

Secondly, what I don’t like about this clip is that it makes it out that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is an military policy.  This is what is so frustrating about this issue because the US Congress is the one that implemented Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and they are the ones that have the power to revoke.  So all these groups need to quit bashing the military for implementing a policy mandated by the US Congress.

Ironically the political party that supports gay rights, the Democrats control Congress and yet have done nothing to change it.  Even more ironic Bill Clinton another Democrat is the one that first drafted the policy.  Instead of bashing the military with false stereotypes of gay witch hunts how about bashing Congress instead?   

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