Wrong side of history

EVER wonder what the face of bigotry and homophobia really looks like? Then behold this lament by Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association in reaction to yesterday's Senate vote repealing DADT.

Some excerpts:

“We are now stuck with sexual deviants serving openly in the U.S. military because of turncoat Republican senators. The final vote on the bill itself, requiring just 51 votes, was a mere formality after the cloture vote. Had the cloture vote failed, we would still have sane moral and sexual standards governing military personnel policy. But sadly those days are gone, perhaps forever.

The armies of other nations have allowed gays to serve openly in the military. The reason they could afford to do this is simple: they could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn’t allow them to serve in ours. ... Those 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 ...

If the president and the Democrats wanted to purposely weaken and eventually destroy the United States of America, they could not have picked a more efficient strategy to make it happen. Rarely can you point to a moment in time when a nation consigned itself to the scrap heap of history. Today, when the Senate normalized sexual perversion in the military, was that moment for the United States.

You get the picture. And it's ugly. Clearly, Fischer and his ilk represent a shrinking minority in America. We can thank progress and Providence for that.

Yet, it is troubling that in 2010 there are still people among us who hold such abominable views. The cluelessness and heartlessness are breathtaking. Fischer’s notion that the Senate vote to kill a discriminatory law will consign America to the “scrap heap of history” is laughable. The only thing being consigned to historical oblivion is Fischer and his lot. Indeed, a special place in Hell has already been reserved for the bigots who self-righteously stood on the wrong side of history in this matter.