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Cathleen Glover is part of those statistics. In March 2002, she graduated as an Arabic speaker from the Defense Language Institute, the military’s language training school in Monterey, Calif. About three weeks ago, she was discharged for being a lesbian. She “outed” herself back in November when she published an article in the Monterey Herald expressing the constant fear she felt of being found out. Around that time a number of her colleagues at the institute had been drummed out of the service for their sexual orientation.

Glover told me the pressure to keep her real life a secret was unbearable: “The military preaches integrity, integrity, integrity but asks you to lie to everyone around you.”
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Could this poor confused girl “who struggled with this for years” be one of the people that sKerry met and has to respect? Either that, or politics asks him to lie to everyone around him.

Hmmmn, I just report, you decide.

I’ve said the same thing. But we can take comfort in knowing that God is still sovereign, no matter what kind of man is sitting in the Oval Office.

I think if you talk to anybody, it’s not choice. I’ve met people who struggled with this for years, people who were in a marriage because they were living a sort of convention, and they struggled with it.

And I’ve met wives who are supportive of their husbands or vice versa when they finally sort of broke out and allowed themselves to live who they were, who they felt God had made them.

I think we have to respect that.” I hope he eats them! Vote for Bush to preserve the sanctity of marriage!

Really. Given the context, the only way someone could NOT take it as a Jonestown reference in actual real world parlance and usage is:

1. You are completely ignorant of that part of history. Not a dig, just that some people have no idea about Jonestown much less the associated colloquialism about Kool Aid, especially younger folks.

2. You are highly insecure and need any angle whatsoever, or want to play it both ways, to play the victim – because if you DO know about Jonestown you know darn well about the usage of “Kool Aid” comments in a relevant context (like towing a party line or being a party Myrmidon etc.) and you have a pretty good idea that there isnt any race issue involved. Pulling the race card Omarosa-style is rather disingenuous. You probably know you got caught taking the Kool Aid angle out of context but cant admit it fully, thus must fallback on allegations that it “could” be taken racially in some contexts.

The problem with having any discourse with you, or any other leftist, is that we do not even speak the same language. “Homophobic” isn’t even a word that enters the mind of most conservatives. We never ask ourselves if such and such a thing is ‘homophobic’ or not.

Yet ‘homophobia’, as demonstrated by your post, was foremost on your mind. Further, all leftist (or those I have had contact with) see the political process as one great trek towards more ‘tolerance’ and ‘enlightenment’.

Therefore, if anyone would dare point out transcendent standards of society as codified by law, and argue for their continued presence, a person of the left will look to the past to a time when we were less ‘tolerant’ and ‘progressive’ to prove that conservatives are on the wrong side of the argument, and remain so. This is exactly what you have chosen to do.

Just got the opportunity to catch up on your live debate comments today. All I can say is awesome! You have outdone yourself. I got a real kick out of reading everybody’s comments, and recalling exactly where the debate must have been when they made them.

There were some really perceptive comments made ( I can’t believe I read all 544 of them!). Like most who commented during the debate, I came away with the feeling that Bush pulled it out on this one. I don’t know what debate James Lamb, Jr. was watching but it couldn’t have been the same one I watched

I AM glad that the debates are over. I can now stop yelling at my TV as though Kerry or Edwards could actually hear me.

Kerry’s and Edwards’ outrageous references to Vice-president Cheney’s daughter in the debates make me long for a return of the code duello, in which Mr. Cheney could rightfully request either a retraction or satisfaction on the field of honor. The Dems have taken the academic rant that “the personal is political” and inverted it into “the political is personal.” Disgusting. I can’t imagine having the restraint that Mr. Cheney has shown through this process. If I were in politics, and an opponent referred to my child for political advantage, I’d knock his teeth down his throat.

LaShawn, you’re the greatest. My day hasn’t begun until I read your blog. Keep up the good work, and God bless you and yours.

Idler, you are soooo bad! And no help to President Bush, by the way.

So if I understand you correctly, anyone who actully believes the tenets of their faith is intolerant? There are too many passages of Scripture which demostrate God’s opposition to homosexuality. Need I mention Sodom and Gomorrah?

I don’t think that you are an unintelligent individual, but I tend to wonder about your ability to process information if you see differently. Along with that, it just dawned on me that you either 1) don’t know the Scriptures or 2) that you don’t wish to agree with such; either way the truth still sands that God views this perversion as a gross abomination and is against it.

Went to a lib website last night where they had ALL of the on-line poll addresses, including many newspapers. The polls that “needed help” were so marked.

The consevative site Freerepublic told its members not to bother voting.