President Bush may not be saying that gays are immoral, but he's got at least one thing in common with General Peter Pace: he's all about 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'. As he sends in more troops against the government's will, old Bushie told reporters that he doesn't want those fighters to be fagalas. Raw Story reports:

US President George W. Bush Tuesday said the policy that bans gays from serving openly in the US military was "good policy," but declined to take a moral stand on homosexuality.

Asked about recent comments from the military's top officer that homosexuality was "immoral," Bush said, "I will not be rendering judgment about individual orientation."

But, he added, "I do believe the 'don't ask/don't tell' policy is good policy."

With this administration, who knows? But some civil rights advocates are worried a recent change in some wording that used to bar anyone from disallowing security clearance based on sexual orientation.

The Bush administration said security clearances cannot be denied "solely on the basis of the sexual orientation of the individual." But it removed language saying sexual orientation "may not be used as a basis for or a disqualifying factor in determining a person's eligibility for a security clearance."

The White House sought to play down the changes, approved by President Bush in December, as an effort to ensure the security clearance rules are consistent with a 1995 executive order about access to classified information.

We have no clue what that means either, but we gotta’ assume the worst with these guys. If the language was fine before, why change it? Maybe it’s fine and we’re just being paranoid, but coming from the ‘sanctity of marriage’ jackasses, we’d be checking our security clearances if we were you. (Actually, if you were us there’d be no way in hell you’d get on in the first place, but we digress).

Security Clearance Rules May Impede Gays [Forbes]

• Having obviously missed her outstanding work on Crossroads, Will & Grace's producers are giving Britney Spears a cameo this season. Let's just be thankful she's not bringing Kevin with her. [MSNBC]

• In case you missed Dubya's State of the Union speech last night, he did manage to pander to the conservatives by throwing in some anti-gay sentiments: "(Americans) are concerned about unethical conduct by public officials, and discouraged by activist courts that try to redefine marriage." [365 Gay]

• A hit gay film that's not Brokeback Mountain? Korea's got their own. [Bloomberg]

• Gay Talk, the BBC's last gay radio show, will soon be forever silenced. [Gay.com UK]

• Kate Moss and Boy George have much in common: A shared English heritage, celebrity, a love for nose candy, and a strong likelihood they'll both get off easy for their crimes. [AP via Yahoo] [Evening Standard]

• We know you're going to go out dancing this weekend anyway, but LA area queens have the chance to rip off their shirts, boogey down for a good cause, and then drive their tired gay ass home in a new Scion. [iDance]

One would think the Bush Administration wouldn’t dust off its leather chaps and hop in bed with Iran for any reason but that’s exactly what they just did. The U.S. backed an Iranian initiative in the United Nations to block “consultant” status for any organization working to protect gay and lesbian rights around the globe.

"It is an absolute outrage that the United States has chosen to align itself with oppressive governments – all in an effort to smother the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people around the world," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "It is deeply disturbing that the self-proclaimed 'leader of the free world' will ally with bigots at the drop of a hat to advance the right wing's anti-gay agenda."

We’ve come to expect nothing but rampant homophobia from the Bush Administration but even we thought they’d never choose to align themselves with Iran, the next country on their shit-list. The two oppressive regimes ain’t looking too different these days.

United Nations: U.S. Aligned With Iran in Anti-Gay Vote [Reuters]

Dying to know President Bush’s opinion of gay cowboy saga Brokeback Mountain? No? We could care less as well, but some very brave or very odd individual asked him at a press conference in Kansas. The answer is as incoherent as you’d expect.

"You would love it. You should check it out," a man in the audience told Bush Monday during a question and answer session at Kansas State University.

After some hesitation — and laughter in the audience — Bush said, "I'd be glad to talk about ranching, but I haven't seen the movie." The audience laughed some more, and Bush, who owns a ranch in Texas, allowed that, "I've heard about it."

So does this mean he’s going to go see it? Actually, we kind of expected some sort of half-assed response about how gay marriage ruins traditional marriage, but that would require the man thinking on his feet. Instead, all we got was just more proof of how much we need to quit President Bush.

Bush Hesitates to Give Take on 'Brokeback' [AP Via Yahoo]

VIDEO - Bush Questioned about 'Brokeback Mountain' [Bradblog]

We continue our So Gay! feature with a list of some of the bad guys we faced this year. Most of the people who ended up on our list of Villains for 2005 turned out to be people directly responsible for our rights; politicians. And we found out at least one of them was secretly playing for our team!

5. James West. The Republican mayor of Spokane repeatedly voted against gay rights while in the Washington State Legislature. This year he suffered through a very public outing and a sex scandal that eventually brought him to his knees (pun intended). What’s that saying about Karma?

4. Stephen Bennett. A “former” fag, Bennett has “converted” and is now completely “hetero.” He and his “wife,” Irene, take to the airwaves every day and bitch about the homosexual agenda. ‘nuff said.

3. George W. Bush. What can we say about the man that hasn’t been said a million times before? Our own leader continues to fight for what he refers to as “traditional marriage.” Bush recently helped raise half a million bucks for Republican Marilyn “every day is a bad hair day” Musgrave the very woman who authored the failed gay marriage ban amendment. We just pray that one of the twins turns out to be a dyke.

2. Lech Kaczynski. Believe it or not, Poland elected a more homophobic leader this year than our own Dubya. Kaczynski’s very vocal homophobia and his recent banning of pride marches are pissing off the rest of the European Union. Oh, and he has a twin brother (also a politician) who hates The Gays just as much.

Who was biggest baddie of 2005? Find out after the jump.

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Tuesday, December 6. Save the date. John Roberts and the Supremes will be hearing his first case involving those delightful human beings known as fags and lezzies. At issue is whether universities have the right to ban military recruiters from their campuses.

Many universities have of late banned military recruiters because the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy violates their own policies regarding human rights. Dropping cluster bombs on innocent Iraqis’ houses might also be considered a violation of somebody’s rights, but is somewhat separate from this case. The case hinges on whether the Solomon Amendment, which forbids schools receiving federal do-re-mi from barring military recruiters, violates the schools’ freedom of speech.

Queerty wants to stand up, snap an arm forward, click heels and bark “Sieg Heil!” at the Bush administration for bringing this case to court. Clearly, what most concerns Bush in this case is that maximum intellectual and cultural progress be made in universities. Don’t ask, don’t tell, as regards the truth about anything, would seem to be the Bush administration’s M.O. And there’s nothing Queerty loves better than a big old MO.

The United States is Jamaica’s largest trading partner. If a U.S. president were displeased by events in Jamaica, he could easily and quickly obtain the Jamaicans’ cooperation, by vowing an embargo unless his conditions were met.

Gay sex is illegal in Jamaica, where police regularly beat and imprison men on the suspicion they are homosexual and then leave them to rot in jail, with scant recourse to a system of justice. Last year, the leading gay rights activist in Jamaica was murdered. Also in 2004, a Jamaican father found photos of nude men in his son’s schoolbag, went to the school, told other students to teach his son a lesson, and then looked on, smiling, while over a dozen youths beat the guy bloody senseless with wooden planks. The police pressed no charges, calling that a “family matter.”

Today, Lenford Harvey, a leading gay Jamaican AIDS activist, was murdered by men shouting anti-gay slogans. Is George W. Bush so busy spreading democracy that he can’t make a peep about this? Where is the ‘Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Jamaica,’ Mrs. Brenda LaGrange Johnson? The national bird of Jamaica is the Doctor Bird, but what they need is a Psychiatrist Bird.

Earlier this month a straight Colorado high school boy, after joining the cheerleading team, was greeted by his oh-so-tolerant peers with adoring names like “fag.’” So the poor tormented kid quit…and joined the far less faggy high-contact sport of, ahem, wrestling.

But there are plenty of cheerleading teams out there for actual fags. Cheer San Francisco is one of the best-known gay squads in the country and these bitches rock the house. Don’t think that just because they’re voluntary that there’s no commitment involved. You devote a year of your life to the squad as well as weekly practice and a few mandatory performances. They’ve been a dazzling presence at all of the Gay Games and will be there, pom-poms in hand, in Chicago next year.

There are squads all over the country. Click here to find one close to you. Cheering isn’t for sissies. It’s a great aerobic workout what with all of those handsprings, flies, and stretching. Hell, even George W. Bush went from cheering to the Presidency.

Unfortunately, no matter how many names we call him, he ain’t quitting anytime soon.

There’s so much to complain about with our Bush that you could shave it all off and it would still rub you the wrong way. Remember the series of scandals in which the Bush administration paid reporters to promote its views, and they did so, without telling readers and listeners they were nursing on the W. and Laura cash teet?

Two of those lovelies, the syndicated conservative columnists Michael McManus and Maggie Gallagher, painted the town red with harangues in favor of a constitutional amendment telling us to go to hell without a bridal veil. Maggie, known to her friends as “Turkey Neck,” testified before a Senate subcommittee in support of the amendment.

A turkey of a different color, Armstrong Williams, compared gay rights groups to the mafia in one of his Bush-sponsored columns. Face it, if Bush were literate enough to pen a Mein Kampf against gay rights, he’d do it. The U.S. Attorney’s office has begun an inquiry into the Bush-Williams follies. May Katrina shine on the inquiry with all her grace.