Pam Spaulding has some really bad news:

Darren Manzella, the Army Sergeant who appeared on 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl to tell his story of coming out of the closet to his colleagues and commanding officer, and who served openly in Kuwait without incident, has now been discharged under DADT. The Pentagon has decided that it was time to boot yet another decorated service member from its ranks not simply for being gay — but for exposing the fact that the boots and the ground and most COs don’t give a damn about someone’s sexual orientation.

Such are the wages of DADT — you can’t even say openly what your battle buddies know to be true, lest the hollowness of a policy that helps hollow out the services during an era of overstretch be exposed as the rank bigotry of someone else’s preening moralism. I have never met someone who was pinned down during a firefight and paused before accepting his buddy’s extra magazine to say, "Wait — you’re straight, right?"

Pam also has this bit from McCain:

I believe polarization of personnel and breakdown of unit effectiveness is too high a price to pay for well-intentioned but misguided efforts to elevate the interests of a minority of homosexual servicemembers above those of their units.

This shit kills me. Does McCain, or any pro-discrimination hollow-forcer, believe that soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are going to hold pride parades instead of drilling or patrolling? That the next mission in Taji will have to be rescheduled because someone just got the first season of Gossip Girl on DVD? These are motherfucking service(wo)men. Besides, John McCain is probably looking at dudes’ cocks when he uses the urinal.