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Home » Bizarro » Battleship = Gay Museum?

Battleship = Gay Museum?

“There’s a new bat­tle plan for bring­ing the bat­tle­ship Iowa to San Francisco,” the Chronicle reports.
inthenavy.jpgThe battleship’s sup­port­ers now hope to gain the sup­port of city lead­ers by turn­ing part of the ves­sel into a museum about the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” pol­icy and the con­tri­bu­tions of gays, les­bians, eth­nic minori­ties and women to the mil­i­tary.
The Board of Supervisors rejected the ship in July, and two super­vi­sors explained their “no” votes by say­ing they objected to the military’s poli­cies toward gays and les­bians, while oth­ers opposed the war in Iraq. 

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  1. Spin Boldak says:
    January 24, 2007 at 4:44 pm

    They’re gonna use my tax dol­lars to paint the old gray lady PINK and ded­i­cate a museum to
    “fudge pack­ers?” Sound like they’re movin’ at warp speed on the greasy slick rails to hell!

    Reply
  2. Neal Segler says:
    April 30, 2008 at 10:13 am

    I cant believe how attached most of you are get­ting to a ship. the ship did not do any­thing, it was the peo­ple on the ship that you all should be think­ing about! quit wor­ship­ing it like it was an exten­sion of god.
    As for the idea of them turn­ing it into a museum that houses a sec­tion on the gays and les­bians, whats wrong with that? I would imag­ine it would be very dif­fi­cult to not be able to be hon­est about your­self, and always hav­ing to either lie or with­old infor­ma­tion. I think they deserve a sec­tion on their his­tory and trou­bles. i mean my god, how many naval muse­ums are there? I think we can spare one sec­tion of one museum to all our gay and les­bian mil­i­tary personel.

    Reply
  3. Paul Artman says:
    June 18, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    I served aboard this great ship dur­ing World War 11. What a shame that this coun­try has such low-​​life lead­er­ship as San Francisco. The gates to hell are wide and just wait­ing for for such idiots. I say, bring the USS Iowa to the MISSISSIPPI Gulf Coast. I can assure the Navy that the Iowa would find a home that would never des­e­crate her, but would salute her in the finest Mississippi tradition.

    Reply
  4. lewis says:
    October 3, 2008 at 4:18 am

    where is the amer­i­cain
    rhis
    rhis is a test we need protein

    Reply
  5. Military Hero says:
    February 15, 2009 at 9:25 am

    First of all, I’d like to salute the patri­o­tism of the men of the armed forces that posted here. This whole gay ship is a nat­ural exten­sion of groups think­ing that they should have the “right” to serve our coun­try.
    It started with allow­ing the blacks into the armed forces, then women–we know they can’t fight and they are a dis­trac­tion. Now for­eign­ers and the gays want to be able to get recog­ni­tion.
    God, Man and Country. Call me racist, call me homo­pho­bic, call me sex­ist, but folks if we want to win wars we can’t be afraid of these things. God sup­ports us, he blesses us as proud mil­i­tary men. I stand with God and I am proud of my service.

    Reply
  6. Patriot Patrick says:
    February 15, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    I agree with the poster below regard­ing only allow­ing white men into the mil­i­tary, although I think we should take it one step fur­ther. We should only allow HOT, buff, lonely, open-​​minded, smooth skinned men into the mil­i­tary. Especially the NAVY. God Bless the USA. These col­ors do not run!

    Reply
  7. Lonnie says:
    August 28, 2009 at 1:09 am

    Hello Dylan. It sad­dens me to read such a hate filled post from an oth­er­wise fine young man. Who taught you such hatred for your broth­ers and sis­ters? Where in the Gospels did Our Lord teach hatred? I read that he taught accep­tance and tol­er­ance for those we despise the most. I guess we only believe what we want to believe regard­less of the facts. So sad.
    May God grant you peace and heal your bit­ter trou­bled soul.

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