Withers: Inhofe thinks straight soldiers will not fight for gay soldiers

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Let’s play a “what if” game. Supposing there is your standard tree-hugging liberal pol out there. Loved by the ACLU and NPR. Gets perfect marks from Planned Parenthood, HRC, the NAACP, and PETA. This theoretical politician talks to a liberal organization and muses about his military days. Says there is no way good American soldiers will put their lives on the the line for their nasty, church going, “abortion is a sin” conservative comrades.

Got the image? What do you think the response would be? How would conservatives respond? Outrage? Disgust? Glenn Beck crying and whimpering about his fears for the republic (well he does that all the time)? The blogosphere would be afire. Even Volvo loving liberals would pounce.

Back to the real world. Here is Sen. James Inhofe [2], from the great state of Oklahoma, opining how straight troops will act if they have to serve alongside the gays.

“And you know — you hear the stories all the time. A military guy — I happen to be Army, and Army and Marines always feel that when we’re out there, we’re not doing it for the flag or the country; we’re doing it for the guy in the next foxhole. And that would dramatically change that.”

Allow that hot mess to sit with you for a minute. Gays serving openly means the very values of the military will end. Inhofe’s estimation of our serving men and women is surpringly low. Sort of sad that a guy, who extols his military service, thinks so little of soldiers like Spcs. Zachary Boyd, Cecil Montgomery, and Jordan Custer [3].

[1] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/Inofe-top.jpg
[2] http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/13/inhofe-gay-foxhole/
[3] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104493189

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