If you are old enough to recall how Clinton pushed his military gay agenda behind other created news you may be thinking déjà vu. Here we have it happening again. While this smokescreen of Iraq is happening they are trying to dilute the military in the background, once again.
Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Preparedness, said the ban is proper for the military because in that life, unlike in civilian life, "soldiers live in forced intimacy with little or no privacy." But if the military allowed open homosexuality, "not only allowing it but promoting the lifestyle, it would alienate young men and women who volunteer to service," she said.
Marty Meehan (D-MA) failed in his attempt to help President Bill Clinton lift the military’s ban on homosexuals in the military. Now Meehan is back with similar legislation to repeal the 1993 homosexual conduct law, a statute that has been upheld as constitutional several times.
2007-03-07 17:42:15 · 7 answers · asked by Raylene G. 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
If you are a female and has served as I have, I'd like especially hear your opinion.
2007-03-07 17:52:03 · update #1
FWIW, this was meant to be a military question and not if you are for or against the war. And if you are still too dense, this isn't a question asking you if you like Bush or not. Jeessszzz, why do I even have to say this?
2007-03-07 17:58:07 · update #2
How could you possibly think that sexual preference has anything to do with patriotism or an individuals perception of it?
Same way I think a man wanting to share a girls' locker room isn't there to fulfill their patriotic duty. Your PC-Con won't work with me... I've been around the block more than once.
2007-03-07 18:12:21 · update #3
This is an issue about recruitment, not if gays can perform a task. I simply think the Democrats are trying to hurt the military to be ineffective and has nothing to do with the gay issue other than they know it will hurt recruitment.
2007-03-07 18:15:58 · update #4
No, I don't see it as a homosexual agenda. I highly doubt that troops will leave Iraq in a year. They have openly admitted that the war on terror will last for the next 30 to 100 years.
History speaks volumes and in US wars in the past, US troops are still in those countries at US military bases today.
2007-03-07 17:50:35 · answer #1 · answered by misterb_1972 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We are liberators. We stamped out an evil dictator who performed insane atrocities on the world and terrorized even his Arab neighbors. I think Bush went the wrong way about starting the conflict which is why he lost the support of the rest of the world community with a few exceptions. People deserve freedom. Including the freedom to make statements like yours without threat of incarceration or punishment.
I don't agree with the war as it has played out, but I still think it is the right thing today. If we had the backing of the world community, I believe we should liberate the remaining countries.
A Very Liberal Democrat (Not all democrats opposed the war)
2007-03-08 09:41:05 · answer #2 · answered by bjmarchini 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a bunch of bunk. I served 10 yrs in the military. Gays were not an issue in close quarters, whether in a barracks setting or aboard the two ships in which I served. On the ship, we had triple bunks, 6 men confined to a small living space. There was never any issues at any units I served at, and one was in the Bay Area in California, the "hot bed" for the gay lifestyle in the US. Even today's military brass in all services have commended gays who have served with distinction and honor and have recommended dropping the ban on gays in the military. Gays have died for this country just in the same ways as straights. In the 1940's and before, it was minorities, particularly African Americans and Asians, who were stereotyped from serving. In the 1960's, it was women in combat situations. Now the prejudices continue. Labels have little to do with patriotism or an individual's desire to serve their country in uniform. I am straight as can be, but I also believe all restrictions based on prejudice should be banned. If citizens want to serve in the military, more power to them.
2007-03-08 02:07:18 · answer #3 · answered by gone 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clueless Conservative.
Would you not agree that any help we could possibly have to resolve the conflict(illegal occupation) in Iraq from our Gov't personnel, gay or straight, be practical?
We had a number of Gays in the CIA that spoke the language and understood the culture that were dismissed by the Bush Administration. How could you possibly think that sexual preference has anything to do with patriotism or an individuals perception of it?
http://www.gaymilitary.ucsb.edu/PressCenter/press_rel_2002_0717.htm
2007-03-08 02:01:10 · answer #4 · answered by scottyurb 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As someone who served.I would never voluntarily join if gays were openly allowed in the military.It is the life styl.We sleep in cramped quarters and spend a great deal of time drunk.
I just would not feel comfortable being in those positions with gays.
I know some are gonna say its becouse I am not comfortable with myself,but it is that I am not comfortable showering and sleeping right next to them.
2007-03-08 08:00:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
President Clinton's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is so popular, President Bush has kept it in place for the last six years.
We need Gays in the military, as all of the straight people have been run through the Bush meat grinder and wound up in a rat infested Walter Reed hospital.
2007-03-08 01:50:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You must be friends with Ann Coulter.
2007-03-08 01:49:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋