{"id":601,"date":"2010-12-18T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2010\/12\/goodbye-dadt-welcome-apocalypse.html"},"modified":"2010-12-18T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T21:01:00","slug":"goodbye-dadt-welcome-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2010\/12\/goodbye-dadt-welcome-apocalypse.html","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, DADT&#8230;Welcome, Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Moments ago DADT rounded the final bend to the graveyard of history.\u00a0 Cue Bryan Fischer, one of the most homo-obsessed Christians in the country, to sound the horn of the apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t think of anyone this obsessed with gays, including other gays.\u00a0 Today he is positively dripping with campy humor about a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/the%20new%20marine%20motto\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">new Marine motto: \u2018The Few, the Proud, the Sexually Twisted<\/a>\u2019\u201d while solemnly intoning that the vote will be \u201ca fixed marker pointing to the instant the United States sealed its own demise\u2026.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As for the claim that other militaries have openly serving gays:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]hey could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn\u2019t allow them to serve in ours.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Those days are now gone. We will no longer be able to bail out these other emasculated armies because ours will now be feminized and neutered beyond repair, and there is no one left to bail us out. We have been permanently weakened as a military and as a nation\u2026and the world is now a more dangerous place for us all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He loves to use words like \u201cemasculated,\u201d \u201cfeminized\u201d and \u201cneutered.\u201d\u00a0 I just can\u2019t help but think that something\u2019s going on down there below his belt that\u2019s really very scary to him.<\/p>\n<p>Putting speculation about his sexual psychology to the side, he is a particularly hateful man.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure he\u2019s throwing one hell of a temper tantrum right now.\u00a0 Hey Bryan, don\u2019t get your panties in a bunch.<\/p>\n<p>I had so much fun with the church sign generator, I thought I\u2019d make this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_1jQwCLz2t2M\/TQ0gt0rlruI\/AAAAAAAAARw\/5IvYc9yipeM\/s1600\/my_tombstone.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_1jQwCLz2t2M\/TQ0gt0rlruI\/AAAAAAAAARw\/5IvYc9yipeM\/s400\/my_tombstone.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"312\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moments ago DADT rounded the final bend to the graveyard of history.\u00a0 Cue Bryan Fischer, one of the most homo-obsessed Christians in the country, to sound the horn of the apocalypse. 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