We can’t be too hard on Saxby Chambliss and his strident defense of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
After all, Saxby probably just wants to nostalgically preserve the military that he knew back in the day — the army he longed to wage manly, balls-out war with.
You see, when he was a young man, the the army denied Saxby entry on six separate occasions (I think they’re technically called “deferments.”) Poor man. I’m sure he was all fired up to take the fight to the enemy in the sweaty, heterosexual jungles of Vietnam.
h/t Andrew Sullivan