“Don’t Ask…Don’t Tap”

There are four basic sexes with their own particular accommodations and conventions applicable thereto. There are men who are physically attracted to women, men who are physically attracted to men and women vice-versa.
The Republican party rules are quite clear. You can serve your country in the military if you are a male attracted to males or female attracted to females as long as you keep your sexual orientation secret and particularly do not discomfort your heterosexual comrades in arms.

If a G.I. were to roll over in his bunk on a warm summer’s eve and make a clear request by voice or by body signals that he wished a fellow G.I. to join him in a sexual encounter he would by law have thus truncated his government career.
Public toilet decorum, by universally accepted convention, mandates don’t ask, don’t tap. Having some other gentleman address you while urinating with, “Hey, that’s a nice Johnson you have there.” clearly severs sexual oriented privacy, a verbal equivalent to your toe tapping, Senator Craig.
Mr. Craig, you tapped, you “told.”
Now however Mr. Craig, if you have found a gray area in the rules of toilet etiquette that allow you to discomfort your fellow citizenry; if you have a winning argument overriding the Republican fiat that holding a government office or military position is closed to those who ‘tap’, ‘tell’ or reveal that they are sexually attracted to their same sex, then I wish to hear your rationale.
Naturally, I sincerely do appreciate that your cosmic level hypocrisy helps send the myth of the GOP being the family values party to the crapper. (This an election boon of wonderful proportions.) Yet, it might be better if you would please consider, for our gay troops and others, that if in your heart you know full well that you can continue to serve your state and country despite your ‘tapping’ then making the same accommodation to all your fellow citizens might be the right stance to take.
The right stance is that you should consider for others as well as yourself who may serve and what behavior should truncate any Americans right to serve.

1 comment

    • Robyn on October 6, 2007 at 20:56

    …with your “four sexes” lead in. 

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