I followed a link from Radley Balko to a WaPo article about DADT that featured the ravings of one Elaine Donnelly. (Her written testimony to the House is available on the website, in PDF, along with others.) Quite frankly Elaine Donnelly is batshit crazy by today’s standards and Republicans and Democrats seemed glad to give her a big enough shovel to dig a hole for herself.

Well, and good. Radley has raised the issue of the need for linguists. Alva’s testimony is one anecdote on the cultural shifts that many of our soldiers are fine with. Elaine Donnelly and her ilk aren’t just the type of bigots who just hate gays. They’re the kind who think that our armed services personel aren’t mature enough to accept that gays serve alongside them. Elaine Donnelly and her ilk are well-rounded bigots in more ways than one, and quite honestly, the best way to deal with them is to let give them audience. The more noise they make, the more foolish they make themselves.