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February 4, 2010
DADT: "Their opinion will become your obligation."
Neptunus Lex on the tip of the camel in Don't Ask Don't tell:The national culture has subtly changed, and now the love that once dared not speak its name is all too happy and in fact compelled to trumpet itself from the parapets, desiring not merely tolerance but also approbation. Because of the peoplesâ need to know, or something. So tomorrow, or next week, or next month the law will change, the military will dutifully tack to the winds political, a half a dozen servicemen will announce that they prefer it this way rather than that, and their comrades will mostly say, "Yeah, I always kind of thought so," yawn and move on.
Which is where it will get interesting, because the bureaucracy is nothing if not persistent. Rules will be written to ensure that gays and lesbians in committed partnerships have precisely the same access to housing, medical care, insurance coverage, tax preferences and all of those cohabitational benefits traditionally assigned to those whose procreative potential serves to raise the next nation of tax payers. Which, you know, was rather the point of all those benefits, the next generation typically being troublesome beasts and tyrants until theyâve learned their manners, not to mention an enormous drain on the family fisc.
Military law is federal law, and can be cited in non-military federal courts as precedent. The militaryâs rules and regulations will be cited by an enthusiastic cohort of civil rights lawyers intent on reforming Alabama, Mississippi and anyone possessing antiquated, traditional or religious notions of the cornerstone importance of the nuclear, two-parent family until once again they are ground under the heel of a benevolent national government. Their opinion will become your obligation. The movie script writes itself.
Which was, I suspect, the point all along. -- DADT « Neptunus Lex
Posted by Vanderleun at February 4, 2010 1:31 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.