From TPM Muckraker:
Here’s a tidbit from an AP article …The story concerns a decorated Army Arabic specialist who was dismissed for being gay:
On Dec. 2, investigators formally interviewed Copas and asked if he understood the military’s policy on homosexuals, if he had any close acquaintances who were gay, and if he was involved in community theater.
Seriously?
Yeah, seriously?
The viewpoint of the world’s greatest superpower’s military is staggeringly ignorant. It’s a double dip of stereotyping stupidity, to wit:
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Men who do community theater must be gay; and
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Gay people cannot serve their country in uniform
Because let’s face it, the last thing you want in a foxhole is a fellow soldier bragging about his collection of hard-to-find original cast albums.
RELATED THOUGHT: You know, in WWII, captured Americans held in German POW camps passed the time by putting on stage productions. Here, for example, is the cast of "The Petrified Forest", performed in the South Compound of Stalag Luft I (one of the POWs in the play is Donald Pleasance, who went on to a successful stage and screen career). The women’s roles were portrayed by men.
