September 18, 2010 09:19 AM UTC

Ken Buck: US military should be "homogenous".

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• by: nancycronk

Every day, I wake up and think to myself, “Maybe pro-Buck bloggers H-man and BJ are right — maybe I’m being too hard on Ken Buck. Maybe I shouldn’t remind people he doesn’t support a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body, or that he told a crowd of supporters they should vote for him “because he doesn’t wear high heels”. The fact that he supports CO’s Ammendment 62 (the “the eggmendment”) which would give full legal human rights to any fertilized egg, regardless of whether or not it was actually implanted into a woman’s uterus — well, maybe that isn’t so crazy, after all, right?

The fact that Ken Buck is a tea-party backed candidate who believes Social Security was a bad idea, or that that the federal government should not be in the business of offering guaranteed student loans — at least those ideas are still  slightly to the left of the official Colorado political clown, Tom Tancredo, correct?

http://www.buckingcolorado.com/

Just when I start to second-guess myself, Ken Buck does it again. Ken Buck shows us just how normal a radical fundamentalist can appear if you put him in a suit and tie and give him a podium and a microphone. At a debate against US Senator Michael Bennet in Colorado Springs last night, Buck was asked about his view of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. Buck replied that the US military should be “homogenous”.

What???

Homogenous… as in all the same sexual orientation? What does that have to do with serving one’s country? Isn’t the beauty of America her diversity — the melting pot, the “huddled masses” from every continent yearning to be free? Why would enlisted men and women have to be the same?

Or would women even be allowed in a “homogenous” army? After all, most of them do look a little different than their male counterparts. The US military is not “homogenous” when it comes to gender or body type.

The word “homogenous” has been used to justify discrimination against African-Americans, Asians, Jews and others in many contexts in many times throughout American history. It was also used when people were trying to keep women out of the military. Hate someone? (Anyone?) Play the “homogenous” card. “But we want them all to look/eat/sleep/pray/think/wear-clothes-like/use-the-bathroom-the-same-way or the military/school/country club won’t be ‘homogenous’.”

How far does candidate Ken Buck take this “homogenous” thing? Does homogenous also relate to other characteristics, besides sexual preference and gender? In Buck’s mind, is there a “homogenous” look? Skin color? Language? Ethnicity? Hair color? Religion?

Ken Buck stated he wants the US military to be “homogenous”. My question is, “Why?” Maybe I don’t want to know.

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