What do you think of the "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy?

Question

When Blacks were let into the military,
They couldn't enforce that policy!

Let some F-in Alqueda into the top schools, but American Gays?
Lost cause....

What about Jews?
Should they be allowed?

Answer 1

I'm not telling and you shouldn't be asking

Answer 2

I'm not a huge fan of it, but only because I reluctantly concede that the military is not ready for a policy in which open homosexuals will be given the same level of respect as everyone else.

At this point, however, it's probably the best for everyone involved, both heterosexual and homosexual, by avoiding the issue until a more civil culture and environment exists, not only among the military but society in general. I don't know when that will be, but it's not now.

I spoke to many in the military when I lived in San Diego (current, active, retired, reserve, heterosexual, homosexual, marines, navy), and not one of them felt that the policy should remain at "don't ask, don't tell". Some believed that NO gays should serve, but few of them were comfortable with an open policy yet.

Most of them looked forward to the day when openly homosexual soldiers would be treated like the dog feces one scrapes from the bottom of a shoe, just like every other recruit.

Answer 3

It is stupid. It promotes deceit. It say it is OK to be gay as long as you do not get caught. It harms the good order and discipline of the service. It was a lame attempt by Clinton to satisfy his liberal cohorts without overly upsetting the military. It was a compromise, and a bad one at that.

Apply the same logic to something like pedophilia. Do you really think "don't ask, don't tell" is a logical way to deal with the problem?

What SHOULD be done is to either allow gays to openly service in the military OR to once again ban them.

Answer 4

It gets rid of the injustice of the old policy, while maintaining the dicipline the army requires. It fails in one minor respect--that a soldier can't get a same-sex marraige and be able to keep his partner with him, but compared with the "If we find out, you're discharged" policy, it's pretty good.

There needs to be a lot less prejudice and more understanding of gay people before it would be practical to have a policy that treats them the same as everyone. You need to have dicipline, you can't have someone whining about their rights and complaining every time someone is mean to him, so you definitely don't want gay activists (or any kind of activist) in the army.

Unfortuantely, the reason you couldn't have an openly gay non-activist in the military is prejudice, but prejudice is real and armys have to be practical to do what's needed to be effective at their job.

Answer 5

Clinton's brain storm to appease the gay lobbyists during his first term, and they bought it, and the liberals did too, that policy really was already in effect, he just changed the words to get the votes and the gay community loved him for it, he was a great politician and talked well to his target audience and even dressed the part. He had a great campaign manager. As far as the current policy, serving and being a homosexual is against the UCMJ.

Answer 6

I don't understand the reasoning behind keeping homosexuals out of the military, if there even IS any reasoning.

If people are willing to fight and die for their country, why question their sexuality? Homosexual soldiers are no less patriots than heterosexual ones, so why should they be treated differently?

Answer 7

We have stop-loss orders and we've ridiculously lowered recruitment goals and standards. Yet stupid biblethumpers still want to keep homosexuals out. Go figure.

I think the bigger question is, why would a homosexual want to serve a nation that treats him or her like a second-class citizen?

Answer 8

it's better than a no homosexual policy. a person's sexuality is nobody's business but there own and i can't see how a branch of the government could possibly get away with sexual discrimination

Answer 9

I think its as foolish and childish as sticking your head in the sand or singing lalalalalalala because you don't want to have to face reality.

Who people choose to get into relationships with is nobody else's business but theirs.

I wish people would just grow up and stop trying to control everyone else's personal lives.

Answer 10

i think it may be good the reason is they may have made the policy to protect homosexuals from being gay bashed by other members.