Major Tate: Sir, we're not prejudiced toward homosexuals. Admiral Percy Fitzwallace: You just don't want to see them serving in the Armed Forces? Major Tate: No sir, I don't. Admiral Percy Fitzwallace: 'Cause they impose a threat to unit discipline and cohesion. Major Tate: Yes, sir. Admiral Percy Fitzwallace: That's what I think, too. I also think the military wasn't designed to be an instrument of social change. Major Tate: Yes, sir. Admiral Percy Fitzwallace: The problem with that is that's what they were saying about me 50 years ago - blacks shouldn't serve with whites. It would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed. I'm an admiral in the U.S. Navy and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... Beat that with a stick. (cite
-- Steve's long since ceased caring about what the "good ol' boys" in the five-sided funny farm have to say about the issue... because if they'd had their way there'd still be dual drinking fountains at the Pentagon.
WAIT A MINUTE. DID HE JUST SAY YOU CAN MAKE THE BIBLE SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT IT TO IN RESPONSE TO AN ISSUE THAT IS ONLY AN ISSUE BECAUSE THE PEOPLE SAY THAT THE BIBLE SAYS IT IS?!?!?!
...because their prejudice gets in the way of their jobs and the safety of countless people and locales? Yup. That makes sense. Put grownups in their places.
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Date: 2010-12-04 03:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-04 03:44 pm (UTC)-- Steve's long since ceased caring about what the "good ol' boys" in the five-sided funny farm have to say about the issue... because if they'd had their way there'd still be dual drinking fountains at the Pentagon.
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Date: 2010-12-04 06:02 pm (UTC)Did John H. Flipflop Fairweather W. McCain just seriously say that people can make the Bible say anything they want it to?!
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Date: 2010-12-04 06:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-04 06:14 pm (UTC)-- A ;P
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Date: 2010-12-04 11:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-12-04 09:51 pm (UTC)