Yesterday, during hearings on the State Departmentâ™s 2008 budget, Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) slammed the U.S. militaryâ™s ban on gay servicemembers, saying the Pentagon âœseems more afraid of gay people than they are [of] terrorists,â and that if the terrorists were smart, âœtheyâ™d get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.âread more