[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.

[shiva]

[SuperLuminal]

Perverts 69%

Americans 31%

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

[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.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Democrats think our military is their social experiment. Liberals just make me sick.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I said no, because they didn’t have a “hell no”.

[MHT]

I think that because of the stress of multiple deployments, the military wouldn’t have enough troops without gays. Between three fronts in Iraq/Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan we’re short (and our “allies” aren’t anteing up the numbers we need to help us).

[vox_freedom]

This has the potential to seriously ruin the morale of good soldiers -- coupled with a Commander in Chief they don't respect. And this during a time of war.

Of course, Gates doesn't understand the trade-offs with respect to this issue, nor did the other uniforms who testified on it.

Three words: disappointing, disgusting and contemptible.

[JulienBenda]

Wait a second: We now won’t allow women in the Army in the three areas of front line infantry, artillery, or armor, all cooped up together with the bullets flying. Now, are we going to allow amorously inclined effeminates to be in the same battle/front lines of infantry, artillery and armor? Wow, am I glad I’m out of the Army! Just think of all the sexual tension thing going on there in the armored vehicles, Abrams tanks, where they’re cooped up together in battle for long, long stretches sometimes. I’d hate to be a Sergeant who has to deal with the new disciplinary rules coming down from Obama’s perfumed generals in the pentagon—ARGH!

[JulienBenda]

Army’s new motto after Obama: Joint the Army, you don’t have to be a STRAIGHT shooter