Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) skewers Elaine Donnelly on gays in the military (UPDATED)

Liar, thy name is Elaine.

This video is so awesome. There were hearings today on whether or not to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military, and testifying for the God Hates Fags crowd was Elaine Donnelly, an unqualified woman from a group that calls itself the “Center for Military Readiness.” Ms. Donnelly really, really hates gay people for some reason, as she is one of those choice few that actually is wasting her life fighting against our happiness.

Things got a little bit sticky for Old Elaine, though, when Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), a young dashing Iraq War Veteran, started asking her exactly why she has so little confidence in the professionalism of the United States Military, that they somehow wouldn’t be able to handle serving along people of a different sexual orientation:

(h/t Box Turtle)

It’s nice watching a bigot get skewered, isn’t it?

For the record, our troops don’t have any problem serving alongside gay people (and this is from the National Review, and when the National Review concedes a point, you know the bigots on the far right have officially lost):

A December 18, 2006 Zogby poll of 545 GIs who served in Iraq and Afghanistan found that 73 percent considered themselves comfortable among gays. Also, 23 percent said they knew gay people in their units, while 45 percent believed they did. So, 68 percent of GIs confirmed or imagined that they worked with gay colleagues, with no evident clamor for their ejection. If there is a gay-fueled crisis in unit morale and cohesion, it appears to have gone undetected.

Because we are very sneaky. SHHHHHH!

Anyway.

UPDATE: Haha, Dana Milbank ripped Elaine Donnelly a new one in the Washington Post today in a piece called “Sorry We Asked, Sorry, You Told.” This is absolutely hilarious:

Don’t ask, don’t tell. And, whatever you do, don’t ask Elaine Donnelly to tell you what she thinks about gays in the military.

The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee made just such a miscalculation yesterday. Holding the first hearing in 15 years on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, lawmakers invited a quartet of veterans to testify on the subject and also extended an invitation to Donnelly, who has been working for years to protect our fighting forces from the malign influence of women.

Oh yeah, in case you didn’t know that Elaine Donnelly is a representative of the God Hates Women set, too. Self-hatred all around. Milbank continued:

Donnelly treated the panel to an extraordinary exhibition of rage. She warned of “transgenders in the military.” She warned that lesbians would take pictures of people in the shower. She spoke ominously of gays spreading “HIV positivity” through the ranks.

“We’re talking about real consequences for real people,” Donnelly proclaimed. Her written statement added warnings about “inappropriate passive/aggressive actions common in the homosexual community,” the prospects of “forcible sodomy” and “exotic forms of sexual expression,” and the case of “a group of black lesbians who decided to gang-assault” a fellow soldier.

At the witness table with Donnelly, retired Navy Capt. Joan Darrah, a lesbian, rolled her eyes in disbelief. Retired Marine Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, a gay man who was wounded in Iraq, looked as if he would explode.

Oh no, it’s a lesbian! And she has a waterproof camera! OH NOOOOOOO!

Of course Milbank goes on to point out that, as is increasingly becoming the case when Elaine Donnelly or any of her gasbag colleagues open their mouths, Donnelly’s testimony actually had the “opposite of [its] intended effect.” That’s why I love it when these retards are given platforms and microphones. People who had never heard of them before and weren’t previously emotionally invested in the issues suddenly realize what hateful twits the anti-gay lobby are, and it brings people over to the cause of equality and fairness:

Inadvertently, Donnelly achieved the opposite of her intended effect. Though there’s no expectation that Congress will repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” and allow gays to serve openly in the military, the display had the effect of increasing bipartisan sympathy for the cause.

Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) labeled her statement “just bonkers” and “dumb,” and he called her claims about an HIV menace “inappropriate.” Said Snyder: “By this analysis . . . we ought to recruit only lesbians for the military, because they have the lowest incidence of HIV in the country.”

And that, Elaine Donnelly, is called using your argument against you.

Funniest passage in the Milbank piece:

But it was Donnelly, founder and president of the Center for Military Readiness, who amused lawmakers the most. Snyder asked Darrah about Donnelly’s reference to “passive-aggressive actions common in the homosexual community,” saying, “I’m almost tempted to ask you to demonstrate.”

Oh, whiat a wonderful spectacle.

Read Milbank’s entire piece. I hope that, somewhere in dark hole, Elaine Donnelly is curled up in a fetal position today. Unlikely, I know. The insane don’t really give up when they’ve been proven insane. They just double down…