re: #150 SanFranciscoZionist

It’s not that they think it won’t work, it’s that they are pretty sure it will work, and that scares the hell out of them.

It scares them because history shows what happens when you remove barriers in the military. The service of black men in WWII was enough to convince Truman and many brass that desegregation of the services was something worth doing. It was many of those veterans, men who came home with chests covered with medals and honors up the yin-yang, who sparked questions about segregation when folks saw them being forced to accept menial jobs or being treated like second-class citizens. After all, if a black man can take a bullet just as well as a white man, why should he be treated differently?

And that’s what scares the bigots so much, because when you start stripping away the years of silence and see that gay men and women have fought, bled, and died for a nation that says they can’t get married or raise a family in peace, then public sentiment is going to shift and the bigots are going to find themselves on the losing end of history yet again.