I thought you might find this interesting and pretty darn discriminatory.  So congress is discussing the repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy for the military.  So I called The House of Representatives, and asked to speak with Jason Chaffetz.  They put me through to an assistant.  Here are the notes from my conversation with him after I requested that Rep. Chaffetz vote to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

Rep. Chaffetz office at 3:00pm on May 26th.

He said that Rep. Chaffetz does not support the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, because he feels that it protects both those who are gay and those who are not in the military. He asked under what circumstances would there be a need for repealing the law.  I told him so that people would be able to go where they want, date who they want, and talk about their life just like everybody else without the fear of being fired.  He asked where would you want to go.  I said the bar, specifically a gay bar in off time.  Or to a highly social function with a gay partner.  He said the interpretation of whether that violated the rule would be up to those in charge in that area.  I asked how anybody would know what those in charge considered a violation of the law. He said you could ask them. He then said that the military isn’t about sexuality and sexuality shouldn’t be discussed in the military, and that sexual things are inappropriate to be discussed in most businesses. I said that I believe there is a difference between sex acts and sexuality, and that in any business discussing sex acts would be considered harassment. However, what I’m talking about is saying things that are non-sexual, but would indicate your preference in the sex of your partner.  I then asked why we shouldn’t be able to discuss what we did in our off time with our partner or significant other, so long as it wasn’t sexual in nature.  I then said, if you mentioned your partner’s name or if they asked what your partner’s name was it may be very obvious that this is a person of the same sex.  Such as if you told them that your partner’s name is Jason.  He said that those were things that gay people should probably stay away from talking about to others in the military.  I told him that this didn’t seem fair that heterosexuals should be able to talk about their everyday nonsexual lives, but gay people shouldn’t do this.  He said that it was to protect them and others in the military, and to ensure that heterosexuals in the military weren’t demoralized.  I asked if there weren’t a large number of things that could demoralize people in the military that weren’t legislated such as this.  He said there probably were, but this one the congress decided to legislate.  I told him that’s why I’m calling to have them change this.  He said that Rep. Chaffetz doesn’t want to change it because he feels it protects people in the military from being demoralized.  I asked him to please ask Rep. Chaffetz to please reconsider his position on this, because I do not think it’s fair or morally right to have gay people be forced to follow a code of conduct that others don’t have to follow.  He said he would pass my comments along to him.

Wow.  I’m sure glad that they are protecting us from…….. something…… er…. making sure that non-gays feel comfortable…. Or …. Something.  I guess that makes it all worth it to have gays protect the country and just make sure that they don’t talk about anything too personal with anybody.  Because risking your life is just a really casual thing?  Just like making sure that you have to hide and live in fear of doing anything or talking with somebody because you could be fired.  Hopefully the firing for talking about your family and life at home will occur before you are killed in the course of battle.

Nice..

- JB- Salt Lake City

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