In the interests of following up: the skits on the USS Enterprise were no worse than those on
Saturday Night Live, and, if anything, those military officers in the Pentagon, who have escalated statements from "humorous skits" to, later, "ongoing investigation", should themselves be investigated.
Above is actress Glen Close, holding the sex parrot in question, (or its replacement after the somewhat vigorous erotic activity....the video does show feathers everywhere on the floor). She was visiting the carrier in late 2006. I hardly think she would have held the parrot unless she did, herself, find the quirky skits acceptable.
What is it going to take to get the military's attention? They do nothing over the pressuring of Air Force Academy students to adopt a fundamentalist Christian commitment (or else), and the forcing of soldiers at a base in Virginia to attend a Protestant denomination's church.....but they are ruining a decent man's career over spoofs and hi-jinks?
Has Don't Ask Don't Tell been replaced with: don't kid about sex with stuffed parrots? We are at war. People who have no sense of priorities and balance, need to go. I would trust Captain Honor's judgment in combat much more than that of a zombie, brain-washed, right-wing, evangelical careerist.
My apologies for these posts to those who don't see the point. We do, in Norfolk. This is an outrage. And the general suggestion from the sailors, that this was all the grudge work of a chaplain with connections to the local-rag-posing-as-a-newspaper, may well be true.
Who runs the military? Trained officers or religious zealots? This issue is very serious, and any investigation should head
that way.
