The Enemy of My Friend Can Be My Friend

The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee, in its hearings yesterday on the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, found itself in an unexpected moment of bipartisan unity in support of gay servicemen and women as an ardent critic of gays in the military (and women as well, for that matter) showed her true colors, spouting often illogical, sometimes downright incorrect accusations that seemed to unify committee congressmen against her ravings.

I'd love to share some of what she said, but I'm going to have to refer you to the article — some of it is so surreal that I'd be afraid someone would think I was making things up. Suffice it to say, her case to the panel was a laundry list of just about every negative, fabricated stereotype one could possibly apply to the subject. It's a little scary to be reminded that people that are that misinformed still exist — but encouraging that Congress can unite in thinking that they're nuts.