As the ban on gays in the military goes into its death throes, the dead-enders are getting increasingly creative with new scare tactics. We’ve heard in the past that gays are too effeminate or too easily blackmailed or simply too disruptive to serve openly in the Armed Forces. But Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association says that, quite the contrary, gays are simply too brutal and ferocious to be safe to use as soldiers and uses the rather historically iffy claim that Hitler used gay soldiers as his top enforcers because straights couldn’t be sufficiently brutal.
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