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Yes, good points worth reflecting on.

Here’s you more points to reflect on:

THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, Article. I., Section. 8., [Congress shall have the power to] Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

As enacted by the United States Congress:

Uniform Code of Military Justice

925. ART. 125. SODOMY

(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration , however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.

(b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Until Congress changes the UCMJ, homosexual behavior is, and remains, illegal in the military. Consequently, the don’t, ask, don’t tell policy can only apply to something called “sexual orientation.”

The term sexual orientation, as defined by the APA, is purely about how one “feels” about members of the opposite sex versus how one “feels” members of the same sex. As telepathy is still in the realm of fantasy, no human can know how any other person “feels” about anything unless there is a behavior (speech is a behavior) from which “feelings” can be imputed.

Therefore, a protection emplaced for the benefit of “sexual orientation” is meaningless unless the possessor of that feeling acts in some fashion on that feeling. If there is an action on the “feeling of sexual orientation,” then, in the military, there is a violation of the UCMJ. Even speech, can be, and is, restricted in the military. Therefore, if ordered not to talk about “sexual orientation,” doing so, violates the UCMJ, which requires individuals to follow lawful orders. As far as other arguments against homosexual behavior, please consider the following:

1) Utilitarian Assertion: Homosexual behavior serves no useful/productive purpose [to society, in general, or to the military, in particular] and causes significant detriments [to society, the military and individuals].

2) Resource Inefficient Use/Misapplication Assertion: Homosexual behavior results in significant inefficient/misuse of societal (and military) resources:

a. Increases completely avoidable, deadly disease rates (HIV/AIDS) among its practitioners with attendant increases in premature death rates.
b. Increases other, completely avoidable, potentially less deadly diseases (STD’s) among its practitioners and potentially others (unavoidably).
c. Potentially exposes innocent parties to blood borne pathogens through transfusions or mere “splatter” of body fluids such as blood. d. Inordinately diverts resources to the care (particularly, long term) of completely avoidable diseases (especially in acute stages).
e. Inordinately diverts (in proportion to the percentage of those affected to the overall general population) limited resources into medical research for prevention/cure of these completely avoidable diseases.

3) Biological/Psychological Assertion: Homosexual behavior is contrary to the natural function of sex and normal human social behavior, i.e., that practiced by over 90% of the population.
a. Procreation is impossible to exclusively homosexual behavior practitioners.
b. Homosexual behavior is a conscious choice by its practitioners… homosexual “orientation”(if it exists) no more requires an individual to participate in homosexual behavior than heterosexual “orientation” requires an individual to participate in rape, bigamy, prostitution or any other sexual activity.

4) Theological Assertion: No major religion approves of homosexual behavior and most discourage and/or prohibit or condemn it. Consequently, the military, which maintains a corps of chaplains, would potentially be forced to order these individuals to violate the tenants of their religion and conscience to allow full participation of homosexual practitioners.
a. Homosexual behavior is explicitly condemned multiple times in the Judeo-Christian scriptures (both Old and New Testaments).
b. Homosexual behavior is explicitly condemned in the Islamic foundational documents.
c. Tenants of Buddhism strongly discourage homosexual behavior.
d. Hindu documents discourage homosexual behavior.
c. Homosexual “orientation” is not a problem absent homosexual behavior, but as noted earlier, no one can know “feelings” unless an individual acts on those feelings.