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...Are you defending them for breaking the law?

No, I am saying the law should be changed. As written, it is archaic and out of date. I'm not sure when, exactly, it was written, but to preclude someone from truly wanting to defend their country is counterproductive. There will, at some point, be produced a "cure" or preventative vaccine for the HIV. If that is your only sticking point, the health issue, would you then reconsider your position, religious matters aside?......

"There will, at some point, be produced a "cure" or preventative vaccine for the HIV."

Again, there are plenty of health risks outside of HIV that soldiers would deal with in the frontlines if they participated in homosexual sex. Anal sex, even if done with a condom has health risks associated with it. And you seem to keep missing the point where hygene is a bit different out there. They can and do go weeks at a time without a shower etc.. I don't want to get graphic on you but I hope you can see where the health problems would arise.

And please don't tell me homosexual sex won't happen if there are openly gay people in the military. Like I pointed out earlier, they already have enough trouble with females and sex on naval ships etc. And I also have anecdotal evidence of it happening in certain field training exercises. The last thing you need in the military is to encourage or normalise homosexual behavior.

I am saying the law should be changed. As written, it is archaic and out of date.

Are laws against murder “out of date” and due for rewrite? Are laws against armed robbery similarly “out of date?” Are laws against pedophilia, polygamy, prostitution, bestiality, etc., “out of date,” and in need of rewrite? If these laws are valid despite being centuries old, why should a law against homosexual behavior in the military be any different?

… to preclude someone from truly wanting to defend their country is counterproductive.

I have asked this question several times and been ignored. Therefore, let me pose it once more and ask that you address it “head on:” Should convicted felons (those who have been released) who “truly want to defend their country,” be denied entry into the armed forces? Please explain your rationale for whatever answer you give.

There will, at some point, be produced a "cure" or preventative vaccine for the HIV. If that is your only sticking point, the health issue, would you then reconsider your position, religious matters aside?......

No. Homosexual behavior is incompatible with the maintenance of good order and discipline in a military unit.