[JCEccles]

Name-calling is no substitute for rational argument. If it were, DU would have won the culture wars on behalf of the liberals within its first 20 posts.

How do you equate a passive characteristic such as skin color, the expression of which is benign and beyond the person's control, with a behavioral characteristic such as homosexuality, the expression of which is within the person's control?

[Thud]

Because mere orientation is grounds for discharge, regardless of conduct.

"How do you equate a passive characteristic such as skin color, the expression of which is benign and beyond the person's control, with a behavioral characteristic such as homosexuality, the expression of which is within the person's control"

[FormerLib]

How do you equate a passive characteristic such as skin color, the expression of which is benign and beyond the person's control, with a behavioral characteristic such as homosexuality, the expression of which is within the person's control?

Exactly! Homosexuality is all about behavior (or the apparent inability to control behavior) that is incompatible with military service.

Perhaps we should just give part of our country to the leftists as their own country and let them ruin it however they want. The way they're going, it's very clear their military won't be much of a threat to anyone other than themselves.