Blatant homosexuality is incapatable with military service. Many people can tolerate certain groups provided that they don't have to live with them. There isn't a person here on this board that doesn't have some prejudice against one group or another, however in 99.9% of the cases those they don't like won't be in their face 24/7 365. I don't care if some queer medic is patching me up...I just don't need to know anything about his sex life, his boyfriend or whatever....those things will be readily evident if and when DADT becomes a reality. DADT works. Nobody I serve with wants this repealed...I'm finishing deployment 3 in Iraq now.
But the number one reason I don't want this repealed is that the gay agenda in this case is to weaken the US Military and knock a bastion of conservatism down a peg or two. The Left hates the professional military and this is a way to poke us. If you want another rational opinion...try this.
On May 26, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed an amendment to the 2011 defense appropriations bill to repeal Section 654, Title 10 of the U.S. Code, which bans homosexual men and women from serving in the U.S. armed forces. Two days later, by a vote of 234-194, the House of Representatives passed its version of the bill, bringing the repeal of the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy a step closer to fruition.
That same week, a historic meeting between two of the outspoken voices on both sides of the issue of gays in the military met on stage in Montgomery, Ala. In front of more than 500 military students at Air Command and Staff College, Aaron Belkin from The Palm Center and Elaine Donnelly from the Center of Military Readiness made their cases against DADT.
Both agree that DADT is and has been bad policy from its inception in 1993. Where Belkin advocates a repeal of the gay ban, Donnelly insists that the Defense Department adhere to the tenets of the current law and enforce Congress’ mandate for homosexuals’ ineligibility to serve. Each authored chapters in “Attitudes Aren’t Free: Thinking Deeply About Diversity in The U.S. Armed Forces,” an Air University publication released earlier this year. The book includes a Palm Center report examining the costs and benefits of overturning the ban, and, from the Center for Military Readiness, a list of more than 1,160 flag and general officers opposed to gays in the military. Additionally, Belkin and colleagues outline a case for the commander in chief to use the current “stop loss” authority to overturn DADT, while Donnelly outlined the case for how such a repeal would foster a shock to the existing military culture that could degrade military readiness...
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2010/09/4679369If you don't serve...please kindly keep your social experiment to yourself.
