Don't Ask Don't Tell

Lynelle · Subject: Re: Don't Ask Don't Tell Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:25 am

Brian wrote:

Humor as we know it is dead. First is was no more fag jokes, now we can't even say things backwards. Where will it end... where?

Jokes about homosexuals? Oh Brian don't EVEN go there. All of our joke police will be on you like a ton of bricks............

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Gavin · Subject: Re: Don't Ask Don't Tell Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:45 am

Actually for someone who always makes lude and crude jokes it's okay for them to make homosexual jokes.... it when the people that are offened by poop jokes start making racist jokes that the joke police start profiling. PickOn

(That was Jesse by the way, Gavin who never gets online anymore got online last night and then didn't sign out of his name and I didn't check before I posted.)

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Lynelle · Subject: Re: Don't Ask Don't Tell Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:09 pm

Gavin wrote:

Actually for someone who always makes lude and crude jokes it's okay for them to make homosexual jokes.... it when the people that are offened by poop jokes start making racist jokes that the joke police start profiling. PickOn

(That was Jesse by the way, Gavin who never gets online anymore got online last night and then didn't sign out of his name and I didn't check before I posted.)

Oh gee.... kind of a double standard don't you think? And I really think that all of you joke police need to read the defination of "racist." hmmm now if it had been a joke about a POOPING or FARTING Indian woman you guys would have been ROTF

and I wouldn't have had so much flack over it....... oh well........... to each his own....... I still think that jokes or really long posts about bodily functions are in poor taste and not even funny. And obviously there are some here who senitive about ethnic jokes. So... I applaud your sensitivity in matters like this...

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Jesse · Subject: Re: Don't Ask Don't Tell Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:31 pm

I don't think anyone was sensitive to the joke... you think far too highly of us.

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Ginnifer · Subject: Re: Don't Ask Don't Tell Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:21 pm

As usual, I had a great, haughty reply and forgot to copy it so I could say "Hah!" and re-paste when the dumb system told me to log in again. (But oh, evil internet! I didn't forget the SECOND time this post!)

On the other hand, I was rambling, so now I can post in clear terms, short sweet and to the point.

Homosexual persons in the military. Why not? Patriotism comes from people of all shapes, sizes, genders, and, indeed, sexual preferences. We may have different goals, different ideas of what is right and wrong, but we share similarities, as well. This country was founded on the common desire for freedom. Would it be fair for us to say that people who had blond hair could not fight for their own? Granted, homosexuality carries a stronger moral decision than being blond would, but religious morality should not be the basis of "state" funded issues. Conversely speaking, what if I were a straight-laced male who, because of my moral position, chose not to serve my country because it had allowed a homosexual male to serve. Well, this will sound awful, but geez, what a biggot. Condemn the sin, not the sinner. Jesus dined with publicans, why can we not serve with homosexuals?

I had more to say but I've lost heart.

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Lynelle · Subject: Re: Don't Ask Don't Tell Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:30 pm

Lee and I had a conversation about this the other day. He served in the military, and while it WAS 25 years ago, I'm thinking that mebbe things haven't changed so much (hence the "don't ask, don't tell). He said that if anyone had openly admitted that they were homosexual, they would have been beaten to a pulp (homophobes abound). There prolly were lots of them, but they had the common sense to not say anything. I still don't have a prob. with them serving.... just don't tell me, do your job and then go home to the Mr., Mrs... whatever........

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common."--William Henry Channing