“Rep. John Fleming, a Louisiana
Republican whose congressional district includes the Army post, said the
military confirmed to him that the same-sex ceremony was performed by an Army
chaplain in the chapel.
The incident was an
inevitable consequence of the end of the don't ask, don't tell policy in
September, which previously banned homosexuals from military service, Fleming
said.
"The liberal
social experiment with our military continues," Fleming said. "A
same-sex marriage-like ceremony should not have occurred at Fort Polk,
especially since the people of Louisiana have made it abundantly clear that our
state does not recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions…."
Cassi Creek: I had
the privilege of hearing “Master” Fleming bitch about this event. He was allowed airtime on CNN with Carol
Costello questioning him. Fleming is
blessed with a Deep South accent to match his Deep South bigotry and his Deep
South intellectual deficit. Hearing him
speak makes me look about to see the men in white sheets lining up to
contribute to his re-election campaign.
At this point,
it is incumbent upon me to make note of my own displayed intolerance. I confess that that Fleming’s accent,
combined with his publicly held socio-cultural stance, calls up memories of
hearing various preachers rail against integration and then switch directly
into hand-wringing “come to Jesus, Jesus
is love!” recruitment pitches. While I
am fully aware that our Deep South states are home to men and women of immense
talent and compassion, it takes me a bit of effort sometimes to hear past the
accent. I’m not proud of this, and I’ve
gotten better about it as I’ve aged.
However, all
it takes is one teavangelist like Fleming to raise the alert level and the remaining
hair on the back of my head. I shared a
perimeter bunker one night with two boys from Mississippi. Both of them were of the “Army enlistment or
jail time” class of 1968. By full dark,
they had burned through their hatred of blacks and were well into their dislike
of “Commie Jews” and “queers.” If we had
been over run that night, I would have been strongly tempted to spotlight
them. They only knew me as “Doc.”
Mr. Fleming
and his supporters take me back that far.
The good Christian Congressman would have had no problem supporting a
mandatory evangelical event taking place on Fort Polk soil. He’d have claimed it was not discriminatory
under Louisiana law.
Mr. Fleming,
here’s a flash item for you. While Fort
Polk may lie within the borders of Louisiana, the actual command and control
functions lie within Washington D.C., where same sex marriage and civil unions
are legal and recognized. Your hatred
has been trumped by all those Commie, Jew, Black, homos whom you must fear are
waiting to corrupt your kids and grand children while engaged in social
engineering. Perhaps you should sleep
with a nightlight burning.
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