It is self assumed martyrdom. She revels in having herself reviled by those she hates. And hate *is* the operative word here.
Not: "*ugh*, guy kissing guy!"
Not: "*EWWWW*, gay cooties!"
Not even: "I wish they would do that in the privacy of their own home!"
No, but: "I want to put these abominations to a slow painful death in sacrifice to GOD almighty! I want GOD to see how much I love him and how holy I am by killing these sick wastes of excrement! I want to see them suffer for all eternity in the depths of hell! They are breathing my AIR! I HATE THEM!!!!! I want to kill their puppies with a baseball bat! I want to take away their children and put them in jail!"
Kind of like that, but harsher.
So when we turn around and tell her that we think she is a bit 'round the bend, she sees that as having done GOD's work. She feels like she is Joan of Ark.
There is no communicating with her or others of her ilk. There will be no way that we could ever convince her that we deserve the rights other people are granted any more than Alex Haley could have convinced George Wallace that black skinned folks were equal to light skinned folks.
What we do is carry our story to those who have a reasoning capability greater than that given a rubber duck. They will easily see how ridiculous, extreme, and even obscene the points of view some of our detractors have.
But it will not happen by itself, just like the original civil rights laws did not happen by themselves. Every argument, literally every one, including the intolerance of having a black teacher teaching white children, is now being used against us.
We have to counter them time after time. Not to change their minds, but to change others.
And when Petty Officer, Autumn Sandeeen, who has absolutely NOTHING to gain from the repeal of DADT, handcuffs herself along with Lt. Choi and others to the White House fence in acts of peaceful civil disobedience, they bring the story to those who will listen.
It will take longer than we want. But that is less time than never happening at all.
-Sandy
