DON’T ASK DON’T TELL

As I listened Rep. Ike Skelton about his stance on ‘DON’T ASK DON’T TELL’ in regard to moving this stupid asinine law from our men and women in the military. I could not believe that he has lived to be 78 years old and had not learned anymore about the character of a human being than he has. That one’s sexual orientation makes them any different than any other person, other than that one thing. It isn’t anyone business, just as his sex life is no one’s business. Maybe he has never, know any on a personal basis. I have and they have been better at their jobs, as doctors, lawyers, musicians, teachers, mothers and fathers of choice. They have been better Christians than most people. I note from his bio that his religious affiliation is the Disciples of Christ. I also see what he learned from it. I quote from Jonathan Swift, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
I quote from a medical doctor, “If we believe, as Christians, that all are created uniquely equal to one another in the image of God, as we say we do, how can we be so self-absorbed to think that God makes straight people more perfect than gay people? If God gave us science and science is a means to learn God’s creation and through science we learn that our sexual orientation is congenital – not a choice but a gift – how can we continue to begrudge committed same-sex relationships? Pablo Casals said, “Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving what the world need most.” My final is, “Men never do evils so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction.” God did not make him a Judge in his place and an act of Congress damn sure doesn’t.