Tuesday, December 23, 2008

A Gay Secretary of the Navy? - Oh My!!

Last week I reported that there was speculation that Obama might select William White, an openly gay man, for Secretary of the Navy. At the time, I speculated that professional homo-hater, Elaine Donnelly, would be having fainting fits and worse over the thought of a gay man in charge of all those young Navy boys. Well, Donnelly has not disappointed and AFA's faux news site, OneNewsNow, has a story quoting Donnelly - who has ZERO military experience herself - and her over wrought whining about White's potential appointment. Frankly, I see such an appointment as unlikely given Obama's embrace of Christo-fascist, Rick Warren. Here are some highlights*:
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Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, hopes president-elect Obama will not appoint the open homosexual White to such a high-level post as secretary of the Navy. "Frankly I think it would show poor judgment on his part to make this type of an appointment," she shares -- and admits White's name coming up was "something of a surprise" to friends of hers to know White, like him, and appreciate his work.
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"[But] if he is identified as [being considered for Navy secretary] and becomes a symbol of the issue of gays in the military, that could distort the debate in Congress -- and that's what I'm concerned about," laments the military watchdog. "Congress needs to look at this very objectively."
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"I don't think it ought to be a purely political appointment," she says of the Navy secretary's position. "[But] the fact that there is no military experience there would argue that he was appointed for some other reason -- and if that reason is perceived to be support for repeal of the law on gays in the military, that would be the problem."
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For those who have forgotten, when Ms. Donnelly testified before the House Armed Services Committee back earlier in the year, she came across as a total nut case - which of course she is - and was mocked on The Daily Show for her insane conduct. She has any military credentials and no credibility outside of Kool-Aid drinking circles. If Elaine Donnelly is the best that the GOP and Christianists have to offer, they should yield the field and get out of the way of DADT.

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