Those of us who have served in uniform have fought the acceptance of openly gay individuals for years. The issues are that gay officers and NCOs can and do use their positions of authority to seduce and entrap younger subordinates. Gays are not monogamous, rather they are extremely promiscuous and they form networks throughout units and services. They are primarily loyal to each other, not the service or the UCMJ.
The Marine Corps had a real problem with senior females who formed the “Lesbian Mafia” in the 90s. They controlled the promotions and assignments for all women within the Marine Corps and if a Marine did what they wanted, they did well. It took intensive investigation by the IG and tough discipline to break it up.
Now the tools to rid this problem are gone. Worse, gays are being treated as a privileged class and violations are being hidden from the public and unpunished. I have spoken to several young officers who have had enough absolutely enough and are resigning their commissions.
I will encourage my children to stay away from the service unless and until this abuse is once again prohibited.
I've read that perhaps as much as 5% of them are monogamous and, for this, we upended the entire legal definition of marriage! Now, I also understand their whole canard about having to serve "openly gay." I've never had to make a big deal about being "openly heterosexual because I've never been obsessed with boinking as many females as possible and assumed the "openly gay" crap was all about that.
Now, I understand it is just as much or more about networking and control. Scary stuff!