[Mrs. Don-o]

Gay people serve now, have always served, and will continue to serve in the U.S. military. Due to their right to privacy, nobody has to ask and they don't have to tell; due to everybody else's right to privacy, the gays don't make an issue of their sexuality. Private means private. This seems to work well enough.

IMHO, the whole purpose of abolishing don't-ask-don't-tell is opening the door for lawsuits. Lots and lots of lawsuits:

• To force military mental health services to engage in gay relationship counseling.

• To force the recogntition of the odd coupledom known as "gay marriage", rejected in every state that has had a vote on it, and compel recognition by people who reasonably see it as a perversion.

• To insist on spousal benefits for boyfriends’ boyfriends and girlfriends' girlfriends.

• To create constant, morally repulsive conflicts in the military chaplaincy.

• To establish a “right” to military-funded “sex-reassignment” surgery and other accommodations to mental disorders.

• To drum out servicemembers who can’t stomach open sodomy in their living, sleeping and recreational areas.

They'll run every one of those items up the flagpole. And they'll sue anyone who doesn't salute.

[999replies]

I can hear the argument now, “It is okay for homos to openly serve in the military, but they can’t get married?”

[MCF]

And, to top it off, they will be in the whole chain of command from the Pentagon on down.

[Sans-Culotte]

Everything you say is true. Gays are never content to “live and let live”. Well, some may be, but the activist self-loathing narcissist types aren’t. This will mean the end of the American military as we know it. It will cease to be an effective fighting force. If gays were really only interested in fighting for the USA, they’d STFU and serve.