The Workday Liberal

[State Department spokesman Richard] Boucher said that the common practice for American forces at Guantanamo and elsewhere is to provide Islamic detainees with prayer beads, copies of the Quran, culturally appropriate meals, time to worship and even daily calls to prayer.

What Mr. Boucher failed to include in his laundry list of steps taken to respect the religion of the Guantanamo detainees was the gay porn that we forced them to watch during interrogations. According to an FBI email:

"Last evening I went to observe an interview of REDACTED with REDACTED. The adjoining room, observable from the monitoring booth, was occupied by 2 DHS investigators showing a detainee homosexual porn movies and using a strobe light in the room."

The absolute depravity is simply breathtaking. This administration is responsible for some of the most outrageous examples of spiritual degradation that a sickened human mind can contemplate. Let us consider this disgusting example against a couple of statements of various high ranking administration figures.

President George Bush: ...the Administration is committed to treating all detainees held by the United States in a manner consistent with our Constitution, laws, and treaty obligations, which reflect the values we hold dear. U.S. law and policy already prohibit torture. Our policy has also been not to use cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, at home or abroad.

Values we hold dear! Insert your own joke here... (insert! oh nevermind...)

Vice President Dick Cheney: We have them down at Guantanamo, where they're well treated. They're well housed. They're well fed. Their religious needs and desires are catered to. They're not being tortured or mistreated, but they are a major source of intelligence for us.

The vice president clearly has the religious needs and desires of our prisoners confused with the needs and desires of the deliverance crowd. And guess what? Those backwoods hicks are not voting for Dems...

Finally please do not equate this post with an attack on gays. If people choose to watch or do what ever in the privacy of their homes, that's fine by me. I would hold the same level of outrage if we were forcing these prisoners to witness heterosexual porn, because these detainees would have their religious sensibilities offended by that as well. Indeed this behavior should outrage all Americans, whether they are gay, straight, agnostic or deeply religious. Values we hold dear indeed.