Have some more American RAEG!

[vulgarweed]

http://www.servicemembersunited.org/survey

This is the survey the Pentagon sent out to service members regarding DADT.

It basically boils down to 32 pages of variations on the theme of:

Q. I will treat other human beings in my unit as human beings if I find out they are gay/lesbian, true/false?

A. (multiple choice):

1. Yes

2. No

3. Maybe, but ICK! I won't like it.

4. I'm too ignorant to know or care.


Yes, I've read the whole thing all the way through, and I would definitely quit any job who thought this line of questioning was appropriate in any way. Yes, I get that in the military it's different, you sign up for a contract and you have to take orders...so isn't it long past time someone with authority stood up and said GLBT PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE AND THEY ARE YOUR COMRADES, SO MAN UP, SOLDIER, AND GET OVER YOUR STUPID SUPERSTITIOUS PREJUDICES OR ELSE?

(And if the Pentagon is so worried about the possibility of people feeling uncomfortable about folks maybe getting checked out in the showers...maybe they might want to do something about the widespread and well-documented rape of female soldiers by male soldiers allegedly on their same side? Cause I can't think of anything more damaging to unit cohesion than that.)

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[maelipstick.livejournal.com]

There's a whole bunch of these things around my city at the moment and I'm loving it. Perhaps they could put a few outside the Pentagon?

Repost for muffed html. Sorry

[fiatincantatum.livejournal.com]

*wonders how much it would cost to plant one of those in every billboard in the US*

[maelipstick.livejournal.com]

It's not quit the same, but you can download your own and put it over your least favourite local ad board.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

Omg. Stonewall happened in NYC, and it's only being posted in the UK?

[maelipstick.livejournal.com]

Stonewall is a UK lobbying group originally set up in 1989, by Gandalf amongst other hobbits elves and men people.

It was created to oppose section 28 of the education act, a vile, vile clause which went:

The amendment stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship".

and even more heniously, voted onto the statute books by the then Tory government. It was named after the Stonewall Inn but it's functions are uk based lobbying.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

Ah, didn't realise there was a connection. That's cool.

Holy crap though, that Act... what utter bastards, what... oh hell, my brain can't come up with words strong enough to express how sickening that is.

[maelipstick.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Fortunately it was repealed in 2003, but not before it had done a lot of damage in getting school support groups for lesbian and gay students shut down - pretty much leaving bullying to go on unchecked. Hence the anti-bullying campaigns for schools.

And now the bastards that voted for it are back. :(