Do you think that the Pentagon should do away with the Don't Ask Don't Tell and let gays in the Military?

Answer 1

I think we need a special batallion of gays....call them the queen berets or something.

In our nation's history, we had a segregated military that was finally ended by IKE (R). If we had started out as a desegregated military, we never would have won Tripoli, Mexican-American, or Spanish-American wars. It is good that we are desegregated as a military now. But these things should be done in phases.

Racial identity mattered more in the past. That is why the "Fighting Mass." regiment of the Civil War, the Buffalo Soldiers of the Indian Wars, the Tuskagee Airmen Corps, were all successful.

Let gays in their own batallion, division, etc. Segregate them from the rest, then slowly work them into the main corps of the military. It worked in the past, and there is no reason to abandon a successful past model.

Answer 2

The reason I see for keeping it is the same reason we still have single-sex barracks, showers, etc. People generally don't like the idea of being in such close quarters with people they know might be sexually interested in them.

This is not to say that gays are more "hedonistic" than straights. I apply it to men and women, straight and gay.

Some have said this is a silly concern, and that men and women are already integrated like this - on ships, submarines, etc. I have also heard the idea of single-sex bathrooms, dressing rooms, etc. criticized as "heteronormative."

I will leave it to veterans to say whether it should stay or not. But I'm just giving information I have.

Answer 3

Until there's any proof it won't harm the effectiveness and cohesion of the military, why should they do so?

The military isn't a social experiment laboratory, it is an instrument of the government charged with the efficient killing of our enemies and destruction of their targets of value, and the protection of our own assets.

It would be highly illogical to tamper with the military without any understanding of how that would affect it. This is what you're proposing to do, and that's not acceptable.

Now, if it can be proven that open acceptance of homosexuals int he military has no negative effects on morale, cohesion, effectiveness or retention or recruitment, then fine, no problem. But there is no need to rashly rush in making radical changes.

Answer 4

The fact a Dont ask, Dont tell policy is even in place is still highly dicriminatory. Personally Im amazed the gay lobby lets such a thing exist.

Its like saying you cant be a muslim in the army, as long as you dont tell anyone you are. In fact its actually worse than that because you can choose your religion, you cant choose your sexual orientation.

If you are gay, why shouldnt you be allowed to say you are? What do you think the gay men are going to do in the army? Bum rape you on the frontlines?

Answer 5

Yes, they should. They are cutting of their noses to spite their faces.

Think about the lack of arabic translators, and how desperately they are needed, and how many were dismissed because of this policy. It's just plain stupid.

As the classic conservative, Barry Goldwater, used to say: "They don't have to be straight, they just have to shoot straight."

Besides, gays are in the military, and always have been. They just have to hide it.

Answer 6

The Marines never held to that BS. It was a gay Clinton thing.