I just have to point out this little bit of amusing trivia.  At the recent Youtube/CN Republican debates, there was a question regarding the don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy, and while there has been a small firestorm regarding some conspiracy involving the person who asked the question, I’m much more interested in one of the aspects of what the response was…

Time to get out your thinking caps and see if you can find the hole in this argument (it’s about 2:08 in):

"And the reason for that, even though people point to the Israelis, and point to the Brits, and point to other people as having homosexuals serve, is that most Americans, most kids who [...] go out and serve in the military, [...] most of them are conservatives. And they have conservative values. And they have Judeo-Christian values. And to force those people to work in a small tight unit with someone who is openly homosexual [...] is, I think, a disservice to them and I agree [...] that it would be bad for unit cohesion."

So, apparently, the reason why we’re so different from Britain (which has an established national church, which just happens to be a Christian denomination) and Israel (gee, wonder what religion they might be) is that we’ve got… you’ve guessed it.  Judeo-Christian values.  Do these people even bother looking up what these words mean anymore?