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.
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Not surprising at all. A “large majority” put Clinton in office. As well as Obama.
Next on their agenda is pedophiles and lowering the age of consent to 13.
If anyone else doesn’t see the writing on the wall, they’re blind.
Please take your love for gays in the military elsewhere. Most people are against it, whether you like it or not.
Usually the first to go are the Marines, and/or special forces. I'd rather not have the gays get a leg up in either of those two groups.
Which is what Don't ask, Don't tell really does. Seems America wants to go from a "gays can't serve, but we'll let them get away with it so long as they don't tell", to "gays CAN server, as long as they don't tell".
The only problem I would have with the change is that "telling" would then simply make a gay person "no longer fit for duty", and they would probably get discharged with honors, meaning it would be an easy way to get out of your service.
Under existing policy, since being gay isn't acceptable, you wouldn't just "out yourself" to get out of serving, because there would be consequences.
I would add that any person caught having sex with a person not their spouse should be punished. Not discriminatory, it would apply to both homosexuals and heterosexuals.
I don’t know why. How many polls have you seen that are started by conservatives? Would they be in the media? Would you even see them?
newsmax are fauxcon Clintonistas.
Men don’t support it that is sure and even fewer would support it if they knew what it would mean in terms of truly open homosexuals and the forced indoctrination of young recruits to the advantage of homosexual activists. It wouldn’t take long to turn public opinion against this if conservative commentators weren’t such cowards on the issue.
Well the majority of military don’t support it. Women in the military do which shows why they shouldn’t be there.
The majority of US Voters never served in any branch of the military so I think they need to rethink that pole.. LOL
I doubt that most of those who support gays in the military have considered the possible problems that might result. How about morale in an Infantry company deployed in a night defensive position with two gay soldiers (who rarely get any “alone time”) assigned to a listening post. Feel secure? Maybe we will have to look at concurrent reassignment of gay soldiers so they can be together in a new assignment. How long will it be before gay soldiers are authorized to live in family quarters? How about the morale of the NCO/Officer who cannot get family quarters due to the fact that many of the units are occupied with unmarried gay couples? Will gay military couples adopt children?
This issue is not as simple as some would suggest.
“the marketing of deviance”
which only makes sense if their intent is to destroy American society, which was always the Soviet intent.
“if only conservatives were polled the result would be strongly against it”
and America is overwhelmingly conservative.
That's one good way of shipping them out of our country, I suppose. It's better they're over there than here, right?
HORSECRAP!
It is. The left only wins when conservatives stay home and/or don’t think they have a chance and/or think they have to settle.
Blah blah, it’d be just as easy to say the same thing about the other side. In fact, we’re going to make some decent ground in the congressional elections this year for that very reason.
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