Many people in the military are highly religious and/or from the South (which still has an old fashioned sense of honor). I would even go as far to say they are its backbone. If you legalized homosexuality and condoned gay conduct that was detrimental to good order and discipline, you would see the military empty of those people fast. They might come to the conclusion that the behavior arrayed before them was not worth fighting and dying for. Certainly, the would not want to raise their children in base housing next to homosexual couples. I can’t prove it, but I firmly believe this would decimate the military as we know it.
“Many people in the military are highly religious and/or from the South (which still has an old fashioned sense of honor). I would even go as far to say they are its backbone. If you legalized homosexuality and condoned gay conduct that was detrimental to good order and discipline, you would see the military empty of those people fast. They might come to the conclusion that the behavior arrayed before them was not worth fighting and dying for. Certainly, the would not want to raise their children in base housing next to homosexual couples. I can’t prove it, but I firmly believe this would decimate the military as we know it.”
As someone who comes from a Southern Military family, you sir are exactly right. Openly allowing gays in the military would cause a great reduction in Southern support, which currently supports the military more than any other region (The Midwest would act in a similar way.)