Really, Todd Lally?
Comparing gay people to being overweight and other medical conditions?
Ever hit up the American Psychological Association to test that ignorant opinion? The American Medical Association? Or even a gay person?
Here’s what he had to say on Joe Elliott’s program yesterday:
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JE: Just very quickly, uh, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Overturned or set aside by a federal judge the other day. You’re a military guy, your comments?
TL: Well, that’s gonna be something that, uh, I’ve already spoken about. We talked about it last night at the debate. Judicial activism in itself I think is not good for our country. We have one judge overturning a law that was passed by 400 or 535 people. As a combat veteran, as a guy who’s been deployed for a year at a time, I can tell ya there’s no privacy in the military. There’s gonna be very hard ways, uh. You gotta separate the people. You’re gonna have to have facilities for men, gay men, females, gay females. At what cost to the taxpayer? And let’s remember what the number one charge of the military is is to protect this country. And by lifting this – this is a policy that has worked, it has worked efficiently. We have gays in the military. We just are not allowing gay behavior. And I don’t think that’s too unfair.
People say, well, you’re discriminating, I’m like, the military has standards. We don’t allow overweight people, we don’t allow people that have certain medical issues. I mean, you don’t go to the military to be an individual.
Has he turned on a television at any time in the past ten years? Cause I’ve seen more than my share of fatties in fatigues.
And if gays are already in the military, why don’t we currently have segregated facilities for the queers to be kept away from the “men” ??
13 responses so far ↓
1 Terri // Oct 14, 2010 at 4:05 pm
From what I understand, the military has loosened its recruitment standards since the Iraq war. And the military most likely *does* allow “overweight” people, if it goes by BMI, being that BMI is not an actual indicator of healthfulness or physical fitness.
2 Bill // Oct 14, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Hilariously stupid. Then again, some of these people running for political office show us their stupidity every time they open their mouth. He sounds like idiots that said for years that gays can’t serve their country in the military. Listening to most of the Republicans, its like having neanderthals running government. What does being gay have to do with what you can do on the battlefield. If you’re not endangering your fellow soldiers while your fighting, its really not anyones business what you do in your bedroom. Why people can’t get past that idea is beyond me. Same with what my wife and I do in the bedroom is our business and our business exclusively, not the right of some neanderthal politician or some religious cult that can’t manage their own affairs much less tell anyone else what to do.
3 Limewire // Oct 14, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Jake, im beginning to wonder if you have a hard on for Todd Lally. It sounds to me like you have an obscession with saying his name, so you make something out of nothing. With that being said Todd is dead on with this one. My brother was kept from going to basic training because they said he was 6 pounds overweight, so yes there are standards. Oh and yea he’s on record as saying he has no problem with gays being in the military, they just shouldnt get “special treatment” at the taxpayers expense. That doesnt make him a homophobe or any of the othere names you’ve called him on here either.
4 Curtis Morrison // Oct 14, 2010 at 5:10 pm
“You gotta separate the people. You’re gonna have to have facilities for men, gay men, females, gay females. ”
- CandidateTodd Lally (2010)
“I feel sure that this must go against the grain of the white women. Is there any reason why the white women should not have only white women working across from them on the machines?”
- Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo (1913)
5 jake // Oct 14, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Referring to Todd Lally, who pulls the most homophobic stunts in this city’s politics all year long, as a homophobe? That’s calling him “names” ? That’s what he is.
You folks have to be mentally defunct. There’s no other excuse for your ridiculous assertions of “special treatment.”
It’s “special treatment” not to be fired from your job because you don’t lie about the gender to which you are attracted?
As others have said, weight requirements have been relaxed quite a bit. My pal, Don, went to the Army at probably 40lbs overweight. 40.
Seriously – what’s with the brain dead behavior? No wonder Yarmuth is winning.
6 Static // Oct 15, 2010 at 12:39 am
Limewire, your opinion doesn’t matter b/c you aren’t using your real name on a website forum. Or at least that’s what gayboy jake says…
7 Hall // Oct 15, 2010 at 6:39 am
An idiot!
8 jake // Oct 15, 2010 at 6:46 am
Yup, that’s right. Todd Lally and crew are still using terms like “gayboy,” “fruitcake” and “queer” as slurs.
Cute.
9 Steve Magruder // Oct 15, 2010 at 9:17 am
Limewire, I think you mean “dead wrong”. It’s not good for defending our great nation for an American who is qualified to join the armed forces to be disqualified because of an innate feature that has nothing to do with said qualifications. It’s not “special treatment” or “special rights” to not be treated with unfair discrimination.
10 Terri // Oct 15, 2010 at 9:30 am
What is this “special treatment?” Are the homophobes concerned that the taxpayers are going to start paying for assless camo chaps or something?
11 bestmid // Oct 15, 2010 at 9:27 pm
The military’s taking anybody these days – autistic kids, fatties, felons, Muslims – but it can’t take gays?
12 Marconi // Oct 19, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Lally is a bigoted idiot. Here’s why. DADT does not prevent homosexuals from serving in the military it only prevents, at best from someone finding out that one is a homosexual. This is in stark contrast to soliders being overweight. A DADT for homosexuals DOES NOT prevent them from serving.
A DADT for overweight would.
That covers the idiotic part.
The bigotry comes in where he claims that the rights of straight soldiers are being trampled. Since when is it a right to not know something?
13 Jeff A. // Oct 19, 2010 at 4:17 pm
How ironic that a politician from Kentucky would compare homosexuality to obesity, considering Kentucky has the 4th highest rate of obesity in the nation at 31.5%.
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