Poll to Freep: Should the U.S. military let homosexuals serve openly?

CNN.com ^ | February 2, 2010 | steelers 6

[Steelers6]

Yes69%23174 No31%10472 Total votes: 33646 This is not a scientific poll

[Steelers6]

NOOOOOOOO, we don't need this garbage with our military now. They have enough crap to deal with Obama as Commander in Chief.

[smokingfrog]

Would like to see a vote only from people that have actually served in the military.

[sten]

sure.. as recon

please, feel free to be flamboyant while on patrol

[Soothesayer9]

Patton is rolling in his god d*%$#d grave!

[VicVega]

Gays have it.

Maybe the big push for gays to serve out in the open is so the Commander and Chief can finally come out of the closet.

[Tzimisce]

This is such BS.

[TexasFreeper2009]

sure, they should serve openly in the psychiatric hospital as inmates.

[SoldierDad]

No, the big push to have homo’s out in the open in the military is to destroy our military.

[Grams A]

I have a suggestion - everyone who votes “Yes” on this poll and everyone in Washington who thinks this is a good idea should be immediately deployed for a continuous three year tour of duty in Afghanistan!

[shiva]

[unkus]

General Patton hasn’t stopped spinning in his grave since soon after he was put in it. But, today, he’s going balistic.

[Zman516]

Exactly right.

Unit cohesiveness, Esprit De Corps and morale would be shattered.

[SuperLuminal]

Perverts 69%

Americans 31%

Pretty much in line with what you'd expect for CNN viewers and web site readers...

[HMBillson]

I agree.

Recon it is, In Mardi Gras Parade dress. That should smoke out some Muslem Terrorist.

[The_Reader_David]

My dissertation advisor was, like many academics, a man of the left (part of the anti-Rizzo ‘Reform Democrats’ in Philadelphia), but he liked to disconcert the pro-gays in the military crowd by asking “would you be willing to serve on a submarine with one [a homosexual]?” This usually got the point of why this is bad for unit cohesion across very acutely, at least to anyone who had any conception of how little personal space one has on a submarine.

[FrankR]

CNN probably puts a handicap on their polls on the side they support of say, 30%.

These internet polls are bogus; they are usually loaded in favor of the blogs and websites' agendae where they appear, and most allow multiple voting, so it winds up like the last presidential election...bogus adn illegal.

[peggybac]

Poll ping

[arthurus]

Should the U.S. military let homosexuals serve openly?

Yes, but not in the military.

[tom h]

If Obama can allow gay men to sleep, shower, and cavort with a bevy of 18-year olds they are likely to be attracted to, then I should be allowed to join a college sorority and do the same with a bevy of gals I am attracted to.

No to open gays — it ruins unit cohesion. The military is not a democracy. Unit cohesion first.

[higgmeister]

To another point; when I served, it was drilled into every young ranker that no public display is allowed under any circumstances that might reflect poorly on the image of the USAF.

With pressure from this new proposal, relaxed rules would give license or privileges to gays above the constraints heterosexuals must abide.