[goldstategop]

I think they should be banned. I think though, if we're going allow gays in the military, let them serve openly. The "don't ask, don't tell" policy is an exercise in hypocritical denial. We know they're there but we just don't pretend to see them - if they don't come out of the closet. People shouldn't be forced to lie about who they are. As I indicated, I'm traditional about homosexuality and I think the military should go back to the old policy. But if they don't, drop don't ask, don't tell - its an insult to people's intelligence as well as common sense.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[xzins]

“don’t ask, don’t tell” has always been a matter of unit morale based on sexual attraction, disease, blood borne pathogen, first aid, and morality.

It has absolutely nothing to do with fairness. The military is NOT fair. Otherwise, there would be no basis for preventing 400 pound teenagers from joining. We discriminate against them for MISSION reasons.

[Tired of Taxes]

DADT is a way of saying: It’s not appropriate for someone who’s attracted to the same sex to be here, but your thoughts are your own. Make sure you don’t act on them.

People in the military have to bunk and shower together, don’t they? Men and women are put in separate barracks so that there’s no hanky-panky. But there would be nowhere to put openly gay men or women.

[Lancey Howard]

You may be right to a point, but you may have missed the dangerous part of the equation: ....reverse DADT and create a non-discrimination policy for the military.

If "anti-discrimination" laws (or even "hate crime" provisions) protecting the sodomite class are made part of the UCMJ, there will be normal Marines, soldiers, and sailors brought up on charges fifty times a week for simply saying things like, "What are you looking at, you faggot?" in squad bays around the world.