Lady Gaga – Repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – Portland Maine Rally – The Prime Rib Of America

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[Lady Gaga]
Good Afternoon, can you all hear me. I wrote this speech, this address myself. I’ve spent 48 hours trying to find the perfect thing to say. My address to you today is called “The Prime Rib Of America”

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will defend the Constitution of the U.S against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And I will bear true faith and allegiance, to do the same. And I will obey the order of president of the United States and officers appointed over me, according to regulations and uniform code of military justice so help me God.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
Unless there is a gay solider in my unit, sir.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
That is the oath taken every day by service members of the armed forces when they enlist to serve their country.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
Equality is the prime rib of America,

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
But because I’m gay I don’t get to enjoy the greatest cut of meat my country has to offer.

[Lady Gaga]
There are amazing hero’s here today, whose stories are more powerful than any story I could tell. Any fight I’ve ever fought and any sold I could sell. I’m here cause they inspire me. I’m here because I believe in them. I’m here because “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, is wrong.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
Its unjust.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
And fundamentally its against all that we stand for as Americans

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[Lady Gaga]
The pentagon and senators such as John McCain, have sited that the Military is an unique institution. They have sited that homosexual serving openly caused disruption to unit cohesion and morale.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
So, so what this means is, is they are saying that straight soldiers feel uncomfortable around gay soldiers. And sometimes it causes tension, hostility, and possible performance inadequacies for straight soldiers who are homophobic. And even though some studies have been done to show an overwhelming lack of to disruptions to units with gay soldiers or care for that matter, I will for a moment entertain this debate. As I am less concerned for refuting the fact, that in the workplace, in any workplace, there are tensions. There is even more possible, possibility to have tensions when you are fighting for your life. Source: LYBIO.net But I’m more concerned that John McCain and other Republican Senators are using homophobia as a defense in their argument, as the nexus in this law, openly gay soldiers affect unit cohesion. Like, like its okay, to discriminate and discharge gay soldiers because:

“We are homophobic. We, we are uncomfortable, and we do not agree with homosexuality, and I can’t focus on the field of duty, while I am fighting. We have a problem with you”.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
Wasn’t that a defense of Matthew Shepard’s murderers

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[Lady Gaga]
When they left him to die on the fence of Laramie, they told the judge: “Oh. Well, Matthew’s gay and it made us uncomfortable so we killed him.”

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
“Oh, he’s gay, it makes me uncomfortable.” Send him home. As a side note, both Matthew’s, Matthew Shepards killers have life sentences in prison and

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
And laws, laws have since been past. That homophobia can not be used as defense anymore in hate crimes in our judicial system

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[Lady Gaga]
Doesn’t seem that “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is backwards. Doesn’t is seem to be based on the Constitution of the United States that we are penalizing the wrong soldier. Source: LYBIO.net Doesn’t it seem to you we should send home the prejudice? The straight soldier who hates the gay soldier,

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[Lady Gaga]
The straight soldier whose performance is affected because he is homophobic?

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[Lady Gaga]
The straight soldier – The straight soldier who has prejudice in his heart, in this space where the military asks him to hold our core American values, he instead holds and harbors hate. And he gets to stay and fight for our country.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
He gets the honor. But we gay soldiers, who harbor no hatred, no prejudice, no phobia, we are sent home.

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[Lady Gaga]
I am here today because I would like to propose a new law. A law that sends home the soldier that has the problem.

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[Lady Gaga]
Our new law is called “If you don’t like it, go home.”

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
A law, a law that discharges soldiers with the issue. A law that discharges the soldier with the real problem. The homophobic soldier that has the real negative affect on unit cohesion. Source: LYBIO.net

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
A law that sends home the homophobes, a law that sends home the prejudice, a law that doesn’t persecute the gay soldier that fights for equality with no problem. But prosecutes the straight soldier who fights against it

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
Or perhaps that was a bit spun. To be fair it sends home the straight soldier who fights some freedoms, for some equalities, but not for the equality of the gay.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
He is the one, she is the one, under this new proposition who will be discharged for disrupting the military if you are not committed to perform with excellence as an United States soldier because you don’t believe in full equality: “Go Home.”

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[Lady Gaga]
If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, “Go Home.”.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
If you are not capable of keeping your oath to the Armed Forces to defend the Constitution of the United States against our enemies, foreign and domestic and I will bare true faith and allegiance to do the same. Unless there is a gay soldier in my unit, then “Go Home.”

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
Or moreover, if you serve this country, is it acceptable to be a cafeteria America soldier. Can you choice some things from the Constitution to put on your plate, but not others. A buffet, perhaps, I’m not talking about citizens, we have the right to grieve, to protest, we have a right to this rally.

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[Lady Gaga]
What I’m talking about, soldier. Should the military be allowed to treat Constitutional Rights like a cafeteria?

[Audience]
No

[Lady Gaga]
In the military is it acceptable, is it acceptable to be a cafeteria American, what I mean to say is, should soldiers and the government be able to pick and choice what we are fighting for in the Constitution?

[Audience]
No

[Lady Gaga]
Or who we are fighting for. I wasn’t aware of this ambiguity in our Constitution. I thought the Constitution was the ultimate, I thought equality was none negotiable

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
And lets say, if the government can pick and choose, who they are fighting for, as exemplified in laws like Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, shouldn’t we as Americans be made aware of this imbalance?

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
Shouldn’t it be made clear, shouldn’t it be made clear to the citizens of this country before we go to war. Shouldn’t I be made aware, ahead of time that some of us are just not included in that fight.

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[Lady Gaga]
We are going to war, for you, and you, and you, and you, and you, but not you because you’re gay. Source: LYBIO.net

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
You can risk your life, you can risk your life for this war, for this country but in the end you are not fighting for yourself, your fighting for us. Source: LYBIO.net Your fighting for straight people, your fighting, you are not included, you are not included when we say equal, you not even fully included when we say freedom. I’m here today in this park, in Maine, to say that, if the Senate and the president are not going to repeal this ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, perhaps they should be more clear with us about who the military is fighting for,

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
Who are our tax dollars are supporting?

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And, ultimately, how much does the prime rib cost?

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[Lady Gaga]
Because I thought this was an ‘all you can eat’ buffet. This equality stuff, I thought equality meant everyone. But apparently, for certain value meals, for certain civil rights, I have to pay extra, because I’m gay.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
I’m aloud to stand in line, next to other men and woman, I’m aloud to get shot at, and shoot a gun to protect myself and my Nation. But, when it’s time to order my meal, when it’s time to benefit from the freedoms of the Constitution, that I protect and fight for, I have to pay extra. Source: LYBIO.net I shouldn’t have to pay extra. I should have the ability, the opportunity, the right to enjoy the same rights, the same piece of meat, that my fellow soldiers, fellow straight soldiers, already have included in their Meal of Rights.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
It’s prime rib, it’s the same size, it’s the same grade, the same cost, at wholesale cost, and it’s in the Constitution.

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
My name is, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
I am an American citizen, to the Senate, to the Americans, to Senator Olympia Snowe, Senator Susan Collins, both from Maine and Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts. Equality is the prime rib of America, Equality is the prime rib of what we stand for as a nation. And I don’t get to enjoy the greatest cut of meat that my country has to offer.

[Lady Gaga - yelling]
Are you listening?

[Audience]
(cheers loud)

[Lady Gaga]
Shouldn’t everyone deserve the right to wear the same meat dress that I do?

[Audience]
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[Lady Gaga]
Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ Or, “Go Home”.

[Lady Gaga - Chanting]
“Go Home!”
“Go Home!”
“Go Home!”
“Go Home!”
“Go Home!”
“Go Home!”

[Audience]
“Go Home!”
“Go Home!”
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[Lady Gaga - Chanting]
Thank you.

Lady Gaga – Repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – Portland Maine Rally – The Prime Rib Of America. Doesn’t seem that “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is backwards. Doesn’t is seem to be based on the Constitution of the United States that we are penalizing the wrong soldier. Source: LYBIO.net – Doesn’t it seem to you we should send home the prejudice? The straight soldier who hates the gay soldier. Complete Full Script, Dialogue, Remarks, Saying, Quotes, Words And Text By Lady Gaga – Repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – Portland Maine Rally – The Prime Rib Of America Full Transcript.