A Gay Man for Secretary of the Navy?

[thoreau]

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/poweringup/archive/2008/12/18/gay-man-for-navy-secretary.aspx

Obama is considering the appointment of the first openly gay chief of a military branch.

Having been in the Navy - this is simply unheard of - and fully awesome!

Comments

[cuboz.livejournal.com]

That is absolutely FANTASTIC - and it can't happen soon enough!

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

Effing-A.

I wonder if mondragon and poodler will journal about this?

;>)

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

Well, it *IS* the Navy

;-)

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

That'd be cool. (So maybe "invocation boy" was a decoy?)

I'm curious, when were you in the Navy (my dad and uncle were during WWll) and what did you think of it?

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

1985 till 1989 - four years aboard submarines. I hated it - it was like volunteering to go to prison.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Oh geez! I've always said that if I'd gone into the military I'd either be insane or murdered, but being in a cramped little tube underwater? Batshit crazy in five minutes.

(I turned 18 the year the ended the Viet Nam era draft--had a card but didn't even have the chance to burn it!)

[allanh.livejournal.com]

He must be trying to suck up after his inaugural committee invited Rick Warren.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

of course thats what he's doing.... (eyeroll)

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

Umm .. yes, they have *exactly* the same weight/value.

*snark*

[allanh.livejournal.com]

I don't agree. I think he has at least five or six more pro-LGBT appointments/bills/presidential orders to create before I'll consider him expunged of guilt for Rick Warren.

[whiskerfish.livejournal.com]

Do you really think it is as simple as all that?

[nudewoody.livejournal.com]

Yes, and Tom Vilsack, the "biotech governor," for secretary of agriculture.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

no - I think it is anything BUT simple.

I think that assembling a cabinet in a time where many parties in America are so hungry for change is an impossibly complex task that none of can really understand.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

"Rum, sodomy, and the lash" was a different Navy, but yeah.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

I didn't figure that out till AFTER I joined! DOH!

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

And you know he went to the same Roman Catholic high school as Bill O'Reilly?

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

and probably the same gay bathhouses as Bill O'Reilly...

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

Hardly. But the other (in)famous alumnus of Chaminade High School? The leather man from the original Village People.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

sounds like good company to me :)

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Mr Intrepid? Served in his local volunteer fire department and was chief of its medical squad for three years.

I've been milking my dick all morning on that info.