John McCain is truly pathetic. As he tries desperately to move back up in the polls, he continues to reach new depths of stupidity, ignorance and playing to wing-nut fears. This time he echoed a right wing talking point that bashes gays that serve in the military. Most members of the armed forces are comfortable serving with men and women with a different sexual orientation, but that doesn't stop McCain and the religious right.
From the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network:
In an April 16 letter to Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), McCain says the law, passed in 1993, “unambiguously maintains that open homosexuality within the military services presents an intolerable risk to morale, cohesion and discipline.” Senator McCain goes on to incorrectly assert that the U.S. Supreme Court “has ruled that the military may constitutionally discharge a service member for overt homosexual behavior.” […]“Most importantly, the national security of the United States, not to mention the lives of our men and women in uniform, are put at grave risk by policies detrimental to the good order and discipline which so distinguish America’s Armed Services.”
McCain has his facts all wrong while trying to make the spin sounds just right for his targeted audience. That Supreme Court ruling doesn't exist, no one really cares outside of wingnutopia about gays serving in the military and most importantly, it is hateful policies like "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" that hurts our mission and makes the military less capable. Kicking out Arabic translators because of their sexual orientation is mean-spirited and childish, not to mention stupid as we are fighting so much in countries where they speak Arabic. I hope McCain keeps falling in all the polls, along with any Republican that thinks like he does.
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