US Color Guard to march in DC Gay Pride parade
According to the Washington Post, the Armed Forces Color Guard will accompany the Washington, DC Gay Pride parade;
Shortly after Dykes on Bikes rumble across the starting line of the Capital Pride parade in downtown Washington on Saturday, an expected 150,000 spectators should witness something never before seen on an American city street — a U.S. Armed Forces color guard marching alongside rainbow flags in a gay pride parade.
The Department of Defense has authorized what military gay-rights groups and organizers of the Capital Pride parade say is a first nationwide — a color guard that will present the red, white and blue and flags of each branch of the military.
The eight-member team is scheduled to help lead off the 1.5-mile parade, immediately preceding the Capital Pride lead banner and grand marshall Chris Kluwe, the former NFL punter and author of the book “Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies.”
I’ve accidentally watched the DC Gay Pride parade. My wife and I were on a “walking tour” of the British March on the White House in 1814. We were walking back when we saw a parade coming so we stopped to watch. In the lead were cheerleaders – as they got closer, we saw that they were cheerleaders with beards and hairy legs. It just got more bizarre from the point – we couldn’t watch it all.
I don’t understand why the Department of Defense thought that it was a good idea to have an honorable and solemn representation at that clown show. Gay Pride parades have historically been made up of the worst stereotypes of the gay community. Living in DC, I had a few gay friends who hated the event.
Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.
Category: Military issues
Turns the lights out, lock the door…secure the building.
/Political Correctness run amock.
Just plain stupid.
Way to go Obummer!
“His Gayness” Jay Kerwin will probably be leading the way.
Should be fabulous!
^^^To be read in a sing song falsetto^^^
+100 Internets to the both of you.
Words cannot express… I mourn for the country in which I was born and raised, and wonder where it has gone. Its people have been replaced by strangers who speak a language I do not know and they think in ways that I cannot understand.
David…I cannot say it better than you. +100!
Right there with you, David. If I weren’t so stinking old, I’d volunteer for that first trip to Mars. Or Pluto. Or Tau Ceti. Anywhere, to get away from these freaks run amok in our country.
You writing for the duffleblog now?
I’ll be there but only for the Color Guard.
Sincerely,
John “Faker 6” Giduck
Will they be wearing assless chaps?
Assless chaps are for Dodgeball, not Colors Guard in a gay pride parade.
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Phildo and Psul will be riding with Dykes on Bikes.
But they’ll be riding “bitch”.
While wearing their pink patent leather chaps and 6″ stiletto-heeled pumps!
OUTSANDINGLY funny!
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Reflective?
It is a political event, this is an illegal order. But then, the Commander of the Chiefs doesn’t really deal in “illegal” unless a Conservative is doing something wrong.
Elections have consequences.
The last one certainly did – none good. I hope the next one has different consequences.
US Armed Forces Color Guard followed by US Navy Band playing “show tunes”.
I am all in … I think I will attend!
And after the Navy Band will be the village people singing “In the Navy!”
Damn… I was gonna post a link to that.
One can only hope a San Francisco TV station will pick up the feed from DC. PBS, anyone?
I think I’m gonna puke.
WTF,
The main problem I have with this is that “Gay Pride” parades tend to have a lot of public indecency in them. If it was a parade for the Shriners and it had some old guys banging hookers on the floats they would never put a color guard in it.
I am betting there will be sword fights and taco slapping all along the parade route.
HO
LEE
SHIT
Are. You. Fucking. Shitting. Me?
It’s official. This country has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Lighten up fellas … It could be worse …
What if we lived in North Korea and the Ghey Parade was in Pungdofucht?
God Bless America.
I got nothing…….
Even Jimmy Carter thinks this is fucked up
Speachless…
Been trying to think up an appropriate way to protest this thing, but everything so far would be just as silly as the idea of a gay pride parade is in the first place.
Nope, got nothing to add.
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on now, people, make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can’t you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit!
Hehehehe!
Emphasis on “join your fellow man”.
GOD HELP AMERICA!
I am SO TIRED of these overgrown spoiled brat attention whore children in adult bodies, I could just puke.
And they can wade through it.
Is this trip going down on the Recruiting budget, or the Public relations line. Just what we need more cry baby gays in the armed services. The only enlist now so they can cry discrimination an hit the lottery. Homo sexuality is a mental desease. I don’t care what the PC police say about it.
A friend and coworker of mine is a female practitioner of the “alternative lifestyle.” Being Catholic myself, I don’t approve, but I don’t hold it against her either. So I was at work with her a few years back when a story about preparations for an upcoming gay pride parade came on the TV news. She rolled her eyes and said, “Oh give me a fucking break! What’s wrong with these people?”
So I say, “I take it the parade isn’t your thing?”
She says, “Fuck no! Those people are disgusting! I don’t want NOTHING to do with that!”
The participants in events like this even make most homosexuals cringe. And yet the Glorious Leader and his administration think the military should participate in this mass public indecency?
Uh, Chief? Yeah, I feel like shit this morning, and I don’t know if I can walk, either. I think I need to go to sick call. Yeah, I’ll be back as soon as I’m done there, right about 1700 or so.
Thanks, Chief!
Within the sacred pages of our Holy Bible, ancient Israelite prophets of God foretold of the time (OUR time!) when that which is evil will be called good, and that which is good would be called evil. Beau coup years ago (I can’t remember what year), when I was first admitted as the youngest resident at the United States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home (i.e., the “Ol’ Soldiers’ Home”) in Washington, D.C., and I still had my health, I was enthusiastic about being able to attend all the major events in our nation’s capital. One of those events was the National Cherry Blossom Parade, and the Soldiers’ Home bus took us all downtown to watch it. Great parade, except for two things – – – ; The United States Military Academy float had a bunch of FEMALE cadets mixed in with the male cadets! (Yeah, I know that all of you guys think that’s okay.) But, I swallowed my disgust and pretended to enjoy the parade. Then, here came the Washington, D.C. Gay Men’s Chorus, with all of the spectators cheering and applauding! As they marched past me, I yelled at them, over and over, “Homosexuals!” “Child molestors!” “Paedephiles!” “Pornographers!” “Kiddie porn!” “Kidnappers!” “Murderers!” As I did this, the cheering and applause suddenly ceased, and except for me, the street was silent in both directions. Some of the marching homosexuals turned their heads to look at me and smile. So, the parade continued. A couple of years later, I was in Salt Lake City, Utah, and passed by the front steps of the State Capitol where militant homosexuals were gathering to march down Main Street. I did the same thing there, and police ordered me to leave that area. Somewhere during my years in Salt Lake City (I can’t remember when, because my memories are sort of scrambled up), I was looking for a job playing my guitar and singing. I picked up a free community newspaper which catered to indigent, amateur street musicians, to check their classified advertisements. One of the wants ads was for a Gay Youth Social Club… Read more »
Sounds pretty hateful to me.
What’s wrong with that?
Some things are SUPPOSED to be unacceptable.
You have some serious hatred coursing through your veins.
No to mention the incredibly innacurate stereotypes spewing forth from your finger tips in here.
Pedophiles come in all genders and sexual orientations, as do “pornographers”, and pretty sure kidnapping and murdering have little to do with sexual orientation in general.
You sir, are one sick and twisted individual. Disgust at woman being on a USMA Float? All I really needed to hear…
What the fuck are you going on about?
“Pedophiles come in all genders and sexual orientations,…”
All genders? There are only two.
All sexual orientations? There are only two.
You make it sound like there are a plethora of different types of sexual predators out there.There are not.
Straight and Gay. Male and Female.
That’s it.
I’m guessing that you’re one of those who claims that a man having sex with a boy has nothing to do with homosexuality?
Bollucks!
I hear you, Brother. I can almost hear ’em screaming in Hell:”Sodom and Gomorrah got company coming soon!”
Do we have a color guard in other parades that are not military themed or in honor of service members, a war, etc? Does one march in the Macy’s Day Parade? If so, I see no problem with this. It shows camaraderie, honor and support for our fellow service members who are gay.
As with anything, the conduct of the people in the parade should play a part in deciding if the military approves providing a color guard.
Gay pride parades have a reputation for pubic nudity and sexual conduct, that is wrong to display in public,,,, either homo or hetero
Tim, while I almost see where you are going it is the character of the parade itself that makes this a little innappropriate.
Gay Pride parades have typically brought out the most in your face types… it is not exactly “family friendly” or something I would feel comfortable being associated with, and I have several gay friend who have said much the same. Too militant, too in your face, trying too hard to evoke a negative response.
It kind of kills that whole argument that “we are just like you” when you see some of thse characters. Sorry, you will never see me walking down the street wearing nothing more than a banana hammock or leather chaps (and that is all) while sucking face with my significant other. I am going out on a limb here and saying that there are no “straight pride parades” at all, and if they were they would be called bigoted somehow.
Sure, have your parade. However, the US Military should not be involved. It should not be involved in anything exclusive to one segment of soceity, except Veterans.
Someone, somewhere asked,
“Do you have enemies?
Good!
It means that at one point in your life, you STOOD for something!”
I just now found the EXACT quote, AND the source!
Winston Churchill said:
“You have enemies?
Good.
That means you’ve stood for something, sometime in your life.”
I’m going to add that to my blog, right now.
When I marched this year in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade with the Catholic War Veterans, about 75 meters north of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the left (west) sidewalk were a bunch of gays screaming at us. They were dressed in nut-job gear. One yelled loudly several times that we “Served for nothing, shame on you.” I yelled back “Because of us, you have the right to protest.” I also said that I would pray for them. A million years ago I would have broken ranks and talked to them with my fists. The only reason I didn’t do it is that I KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO ACT THE FOOL BEFOREHAND and I prepped myself for it.
Disgusting. Pisses me off to no end.
What do you think the odds are of all of the color guard going to BAS/Sick Bay/TMC (or whatever iteration serves their branch) and getting a light duty chit/no marching profile prior to Saturday?
Of course they probably had to add an extra person to carry the rainbow flag. Which will now become a regular part of the color guard
Do the members of the Color Guard have the ability to opt out of this if they find it distasteful? They should. With no consequences. But of course in today’s politically correct society, anyone who found it offensive or against their beliefs would be a bigot and have to be crucified. Why not just use a gay color guard? There have to be plenty of the gheys who would be willing to make a spectacle of themselves and the national and battle colors of all of the branches of the service.
I go back to the training we received when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was being repealed. “There will be no difference from today to tomorrow. No special treatment. The only difference is they can serve openly”. What a fucking lie that was. Like everything else that comes from this administration. It all has an expiration date.
The military means nothing to the current administration as a part of the government. It’s just a bunch of toys set up to decorate the place in colorful ways. Unfortunately, that will be the way it’s viewed – as toy soldiers on the living room floor – until we are actually threatened again in some way.
I agree, if a color guard is going to march with these overblown, obnoxious dorks, they should be volunteers, not ordered to go.