You know the totally unjustified hysteria around ending DADT has reached a fever pitch when some gay soldiers are already looking forward to looking back on it with fondness.  “The policy actually allowed for a lot of protections,” one terribly misled lesbian in the Army National Guard ("who asked that her name be withheld because she could still be discharged under the rule") told the New York Times. 

Of course gays have always known that silence and secrecy afforded a kind of "protection".  It's easy!  So long as you pretend, voila!  You're "protected"!  Unfortunately, even closeted soldiers were among the 13,000 discharged (so far) under DADT.  I mean, I'm gonna go ahead and venture none of them showed up for duty like this:


Nor will they if the ban is lifted. 

Evidently no one has told the New York Times' Mystery Dyke that the repeal of DADT does not mandate big Coming Out Parties for gay servicemen, with Coors Light, Lady Gaga, and go-go boys, or... whatever it is lesbians have at their parties that makes them any different than a GOP fundraiser. 

Despite rumors to the contrary, the repeal of DADT does not require gays to suddenly become any gayer than they ever were.  It does not give them license to pinch their fellow soldiers' asses or sodomize them in the shower, or — worst of all! — assault them with oral sex while they're "sleeping". 

But if they wish to come out, in the ordinary, respectable way, they no longer have to fear being reported, investigated, and fired as a matter of course, their careers destroyed, their sacrifice to their country and their contribution to its security trashed, as if they weren't worthy to serve at all — for no other reason than that they're gay.  Really.

 They no longer have to fear the rumor mill could lead, again, to investigation and discharge.  They no longer have to rely on the "protection" of silence, secrecy, and anonymity (although nothing's stopping them if they still want to). 

Those who "oppose homosexuality on religious grounds" fear that homosexuality will be rammed down their throats (they love that phrase for some reason, don't they?), much as their "religious values" are now rammed down everyone else's.  As one of them told the Times: “If I don’t know, it’s a whole lot better than someone parading it around in my face and me having to deal with it.”  Mr. Pot, meet fabulous Mr. Hot Pink Kettle.

The joke is that that's what's been holding this up!  That petty officer first class Joe Blow from Kokomo with his delicate sensibilities doesn't want to know!  Because then he has to deal with... knowing! 

And if he knows and then doesn't get his bedtime blowjob he'll feel really cheated!  All those gays "parading around in his face" and no one wants to assault him.  That's enough to want to get them all kicked out right there! 

And the funny thing?  Under DADT he could do just that.