Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

Apparently in order to be able to work for the government in any capacity especially in our military it is necessary that people be straight. Recently (as many of you I’m sure have heard) an Arabic linguist was dismissed from the military because he was gay. What is perhaps the most ridiculous and offensive however were some of the absurd questions that were asked in uncovering this (fairly unimportant) piece of information, for instance whether or not he had ever been involved in community theatre.

Quite frankly I don’t care if our men and women in the service are tap dancing to Hairspray in their spare time as long as they are pointing their guns at the right people. I’m quite curious as to why the military is perpetuating an absurd stereotype that has more basis in fantasy than fact. For those of you who stay up on the news in New York, or just happen to be fans of the LOGO channel you might of also heard of Rhonda Davis, a wonderfully sweet kind woman who was dismissed from our military because of her sexual orientation.

Perhaps the military should spend less time investigating their soldiers’ personal lives and more time investigating their soldiers’ actions, such as the rape of an Iraqi woman and the murder of her family by American soldiers. Or perhaps the notorious mistreatment of captured prisoners. But no, that is unreasonable. How could anyone suggest that we should pay attention to what is relevant and actually affecting our country as well as other countries and our image world-wide? Instead why don’t we stab ourselves in the back by getting rid of good soldiers for something as irrelevant as sexual orientation. Et tu, America?