Unreal and Real Momentous News

Unreal and Real Momentous News

Thanks to IOwntheWorld.com, Spooftimes.com–and the repeal of the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy–rumor has it that “the United States First Homosexual Division, the Fighting Sodomites,” will soon be deploying to Afghanistan.

No word yet on what will be the uniform of the day or the nature of their battle gear but Spooftimes does report that “the ‘Fighting Sodomite Division,’ . . . will be tasked with failed ordnance, or dud bomb inspections, mine clearing, and bomb disposal operations:” http://tiny.cc/5vyk8

In related and actual news, it’s been discovered in George Washington’s papers on file at the Library of Congress that, long before DADT and long before homosexuals became “gay,” someone must have asked about or someone told on a queer guy and a probably straight guy in the Continental Army.

While Washington’s troops were encamped at frigid Valley Forge on March 10, 1778, “Washington approved the dismissal from service of Lt. Frederick Gotthold Enslin for ‘attempting to commit sodomy’ with another soldier,” an act the future commander-in-chief regarded with “abhorrence and detestation.”

It’s not clear how Gotthold got hold of the other soldier but “Enslin’s dismissal came less than two weeks after another soldier, Ensign Anthony Maxwell, was acquitted of the charge of ‘propagating a scandalous report prejudicial to the character of Lt. Enslin. ‘ “ Apparently, that charge was true and verifiable.

Times, they really do change.

Two hundred thirty-two years later at the signing ceremony for repeal of DADT, Vice President Joe Biden didn’t quite say it was “a big f*cking deal” but he was no less efusive: “It’s a good day. It’s a real good day. . . Mr. President, by signing this bill, you will be linking military might with an abiding sense of justice. You’ll be projecting power by promoting fairness, and making the United States military as strong as they can be at a time we need it to be the strongest:” http://tiny.cc/dgeiw

Biden might call it, “power and strength through gaiety.” The Father of our country would call it abhorrent and detestable. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3317)