Gone Psycho

Towleroad is reporting that Marine Corps Commandant General James Conway said that he wants separate barracks for gay troops. "I would not ask our Marines to live with someone that is homosexual if we can possibly avoid it," he said.

Okay.  A few things:

1. It's happening now.  Straight and gay guys are living together.  Explain to me how it is different if people simply know who's gay.

2. As one blogger put it, what's next?   Separate drinking fountains and bathrooms?

3. Why do straight men assume that our number one objective in life is to get them in bed?  Stop flattering yourself, General Conway.


4. Notice the language here: our Marines vs. someone who is homosexual.  We get it, General.  Only straight men will be the real Marines under your command.  Just like only straight marriages are real in the eyes of Focus on the Family.

5. As Barney Frank once said, "I haven't seen so much fear over showers since Psycho."

Satire on Closeted Politicians

Thanks to Joe.My.God. for finding this.

Rachel Maddow takes out full page ad

Rachel Maddow took out a full page ad in The Boston Globe today to challenge Scott Brown's assertions that she is running against him. (Sorry for the blurry and tiny print.) 

Reactions to Gates' DADT Announcement

"At the end of the day, there remain major problems with the Obama Rule, mainly that "don't ask, don't tell" still exists, something which President Obama could work harder to change by putting repeal into the Defense Authorization Bill. Meanwhile, service members are still at risk of being fired every day for something that has nothing to do with military capability. Even in the new regs, much of the old language of "propensities" and "fact-finding inquires" that stinks of 17th-century Salem, and that has made this policy so odious and so impossible to enforce consistently, still exists, and so there will still be problems as a result."

-- Nathaniel Frank of the Palm Center


“This looks like a good step forward on the administration’s promise to end discrimination against gays in the military.  My only question is, What took them so long?”

--Richard Socarides, special assistant for gay rights issues under Bill Clinton

“The regulatory changes announced today are another major step forward in making the 1993 ban less draconian.”

--Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network

One more reason to admire Lt. Dan Choi

Dan Choi was on Rachel Maddow last night, a year after he appeared on her show and acknowledged he is gay.

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Follow up on fund withdrawal from homeless organization in Maine

Yesterday I blogged that the Catholic Church had withdrawn its financial support for an organization for the homeless because that organization supported same-sex marriage.

The AP is reporting that donations have started to flood in from around the country:

 A Maine social service organization that works with the homeless is getting help from across the nation in replacing grant money lost because of its support for same sex marriage.

The director of the Preble Street Homeless Voices for Justice Program tells the Portland Press Herald that since Wednesday about 150 new donors have given almost $10,000.

The group lost $17,400 for this fiscal year when the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland and the Washington-based Catholic Campaign for Human Development canceled grants because of Preble Street's support for same-sex marriage in last fall's statewide gay marriage referendum.

Church officials say Preble Street's support for the referendum violated its grant agreements.

 It's always nice to see a silver lining.

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