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Poll: Majority Supports Gays in Military
http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/Poll-Majority-Supports-Gays/2010/02/11/id/349634 ^ | 11 Feb 2010 | News Max

Posted on 02/11/2010 9:44:13 AM PST by Maelstorm

A large majority of U.S. voters believe that homosexual men and women should be allowed to serve openly in the US military, according to a poll out Wednesday.

The independent Quinnipiac University poll asked Americans about their views on the law that requires gay service members to keep quiet about their sexual orientation or face expulsion from the military, known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

The survey was conducted after President Barack Obama last month renewed his vow to change the law and allow gays to serve openly in uniform.

The poll found that 57 percent of US voters believe that gays should serve openly, an idea opposed by 36 percent.

Americans also believe by a 66 to 31 percent margin that it is discriminatory to prevent openly gay men and women to serve.

However, by a 54 to 38 percent margin, those surveyed also believe that gays serving in the military should limit displaying their sexual orientation on the job.

US military households -- homes with an active or reserve member, or a veteran in their family -- were evenly divided over the issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academicbias; dadt; dontaskdonttell; homosexualagenda; poll; quinnipiac; quinnipiacuniversity
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To: Maelstorm
So let me get this straight (pun most assuredly intended)..there's not a single state in which homosexual marriage has been enacted/approved in a statewide referendum and yet I'm supposed to believe that a majority...even a slim majority...of Americans support homosexuals in the military?

Sorry,I'm not buying it.

21 posted on 02/11/2010 9:56:05 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

That’s my take on the issue.


22 posted on 02/11/2010 9:56:10 AM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: Maelstorm

How is it that a very small percentage of perverts command so much power?


23 posted on 02/11/2010 9:56:11 AM PST by animal172 (Can a girl with a mole on her face be happy married to a gopher?)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

That’s my take on the issue.


24 posted on 02/11/2010 9:56:32 AM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: Jim Robinson
Homosexuality was considered a mental illness when I served. The few that were found out were swiftly shown the door.

I continue to adhere to that diagnosis to this day. Mental illness has no place in our Armed Forces!

25 posted on 02/11/2010 9:57:37 AM PST by JDoutrider (G. Soros needs to be sent home... to Hell)
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To: Maelstorm

Gays may be serving in the military now and doing a good job - precisely because they must keep it hidden.

Once homosexuality is in the open in the military, the cultural rot begins.

Political correctness is death by a thousand pin-pricks. While the problems may not be obvious immediately, but when they do become obvious, it will be far too late.


26 posted on 02/11/2010 9:59:08 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Maelstorm

We all know that Americans in 2010 are way too holy and righteous to approve of homosexuality. Debauchery is limited to tv and movies and maybe California. Poll must be bogus.


27 posted on 02/11/2010 10:01:09 AM PST by all the best
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To: Maelstorm
Poll results here: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1422
Voters from military households with an active or reserve member or a veteran in their family split 48 - 47 percent on ending "don't ask; don't tell."

Support for repeal is 72 - 23 percent among Democrats and 56 - 37 percent among independent voters.

Republicans oppose repeal 53 - 40 percent.

--- In my interpretation...

40% of Republicans don't oppose repeal (or in other words 60% are presumed to not be advocating this new policy change).

Military families are split dead even on this (for/against), they probably needed a bigger sample pool.

This was found in the same poll:

Terror Trials

American voters say 59 - 35 percent that 9/11 terrorism suspects should be tried in military courts rather than in civilian courts, as currently planned. Voters say 68 - 25 percent that terrorism suspects should not receive all of the constitutional protections afforded by a civilian trial. Democrats prefer civilian courts 48 - 45 percent. Support for military courts is 73 - 23 percent among Republicans and 61 - 33 percent among independent voters.

The suspect who allegedly tried to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day should be tried as an enemy combatant rather than as an ordinary criminal, voters say 76 - 19 percent. But voters approve 52 - 42 percent of the FBI's advice to the suspect of his right to remain silent.

I see percents but I don't see the number of participants of each political ideology.

28 posted on 02/11/2010 10:01:14 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: animal172
How is it that a very small percentage of perverts command so much power?

They sit on the bench in our courts and run newsrooms from coast to coast.

If don't-ask/don't-tell is so bad for the military, why are the homosexuals who drive the day's news silent about why this agenda means so much to them?

The anchors who have this desire should be upfront about who they are.

29 posted on 02/11/2010 10:02:53 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: Maelstorm

Poll: Majority Supports Gays in Military In The Lead Humvee On The Roads That Have Been Mined

There, fixed it.


30 posted on 02/11/2010 10:02:55 AM PST by anonsquared (TEA PARTY 2010 - THROW 'EM ALL IN THE HARBOR!)
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To: Maelstorm

Quinnipiac is biased toward the left. Also, note that the respondents say that it’s OK for gays to serve, but that they should “limit displaying their sexual orientation on the job.”

In other words, they don’t quite understand the question, since that’s pretty much what “don’t ask, don’t tell” is. Clinton’s policy was actually a slight liberalization, since the previous policy was theoretically that it was wrong for gays to be in the military at all.

Also, as already said, I doubt whether they phoned any military bases to ask for responses. So they may have gotten a few vets, but the poll still was biased—in addition to their usual leftish bias.


31 posted on 02/11/2010 10:03:42 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Maelstorm

32 posted on 02/11/2010 10:07:22 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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To: Past Your Eyes

The Fighting 69th!

OMG! Pat O’Brien would be soilin’ his britches!


33 posted on 02/11/2010 10:08:56 AM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: Maelstorm

“The poll found that 57 percent of US voters believe that gays should serve openly,...”
Yeah, and I’d bet 95%+ of those surveyed never served.


34 posted on 02/11/2010 10:10:15 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: j_guru
does this mean coed showers? or do the gay men shower with the women? and Vice-versa... oh so many questions...

I wonder how many people would want there daughters showering and bunking with a bunch of ogling men?

I wonder how many men want to shower and bunk with a bunch of ogling queers?

35 posted on 02/11/2010 10:10:15 AM PST by Prokopton
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To: MizSterious

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2009/October/Most-in-Military-Want-Dont-Ask-Dont-Tell-to-Stay/

http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2008/12/122908_military_poll_DADT/

There ya go :)


36 posted on 02/11/2010 10:10:17 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: All
Can anyone point to a general public poll where the results were against allowing gays to openly serve in the military?
37 posted on 02/11/2010 10:10:40 AM PST by heysean
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To: Maelstorm
I spent 20 plus years in the Army. And I have been retired over 18 years. NEVER in all those years have I heard one veteran or one military retiree, NONE, say they agreed with homosexuals in our military. NONE, NONE, NONE!!!
38 posted on 02/11/2010 10:13:15 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Stay armed. Buy bullets. Buy guns. Protect yourself - the government isn't.)
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To: Maelstorm

I would like to know how we will identify gays in the military? Will they wear pink uniforms? or will we tattoo somthing on their forheads?

I am not for gays in anything, as I* don’t think the question should be asked at any time in public. I wasn’t asked if I was a heterosexual when I joined the Navy and I didn’t feel the need to tell everyone I wasn’t a queer..


39 posted on 02/11/2010 10:13:47 AM PST by Big Mack (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat VEGETABLES!)
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To: Maelstorm

Qunipiac poll = worthless

This must be a poll of those who suffer from DC Beltway disease.


40 posted on 02/11/2010 10:17:00 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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