The title of the article http://www.dallasvoice.com/mission-accomplished-dadt-repeal-1057681.html should have been “Mission Partly Accomplished”..unless of course it has never been an LGBT union.

CMSgt Guy-Gainer and company find themselves attempting to absorb the significance of the DADT repeal. At long last, IT IS FINISHED. They have survived the scourging…the jeers and taunts, the scourges and humiliation that have been delivered on the road to Calvary. They bask in the glory of the day.

All is now well with the world. They dazzle with brilliance, their hearts oscillating with a heavenly resonance having regained their merited dignity and rightful stature in their resurrected bodies. Vindication has come to the LGB community—see they never were deviants after all. They will soon part company and evangelize the world. Yes, of course IT IS FINISHED—push the chairs in, turn off the lights, and lock the doors finished.

Yet, although they were deep in thought and self-reflection, it was not quite deep or reflective enough.

Maybe in their jumping for joy, they forgot their spectacles at the signing ceremony and forgot to take a second deep and reflective look at the infamous “all-inclusive” acronym: LGBT.

Had they done so, they would have detected a barely-there, almost illegible, fading and dimming—symbol that resembled a—cross? Their sacrifice “on the cross” did not absolution for everyone create. As they would draw their reflective heads back they would have realized that the cross was actually a T and part of a panoramic acronym: LGBT. Oh wait—there is a domino still standing…you think?

No IT IS NOT FINISHED. There is a cause yet to be fought for. The future is not brighter for all. His tears of joy should have been tears of sorrow for the other “family” members swept overboard and extending an arm above the water for a helping hand from a “loved” one. Yeah right. If the mission objective has been only for LGB members then ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED stands as historical fact. If the objective has been inclusively LGBT, then my preceding sentence is false—or are my eyes cross-eyed?

Delphi