Posted on 10/29/2010 10:19:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A majority of active-duty and reserve service members surveyed by the Defense Department would not object to serving and living alongside openly gay troops, according to multiple people familiar with the findings.
The survey's results are expected to be included in a Pentagon report, due to President Obama on Dec. 1, regarding how the military would end enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" law that bans openly gay men and lesbians from serving in uniform.
Some troops surveyed - but not a majority - objected strongly to the idea of serving with gays and said they would quit the military if the policy changed, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly share details of the survey.
Defense Department officials did not respond to requests for comment.
NBC News first reported Thursday evening on the survey's findings.
In July, the Pentagon sent a survey with dozens of questions to 400,000 active-duty and reserve troops. It asked whether they had ever shared a room or the showers with gay peers, and how they might act if a gay service member lived with a same-sex partner on base.
Military officials did not say how many troops completed the survey, but at least 103,000 had done so just days before it was due, according to the Pentagon. A similar survey was later sent to military spouses.
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You couldn’t be more right. Generally. when people over-respond so disgustingly, it’s because the subject hits far too close to home for them to act human.
...and another thing, how DARE you attack my conservatism. You don’t know me and you don’t know my politics.
These pro-homos in the military trolls can't ever quit. This one's son is probably gay himself, which makes no difference to me. When they start supporting gay in MY COUNTRIES MILITARY then they become enemies of the state.
They tell you that it isn't a big deal, then they go on and on and on.
The brown agenda...
Your politics is clear as a bell....
So the thought of homos in the US military is not disgusting to you either? Wow, another liberation idiot....
When someone comes out swinging that hard for no good reason, “knowing” isn’t on their typical agenda. They just enjoy being blowhards because they feel it’s the best way to over-compensate and prove how much cooler they are than thou.
Attack, attack, attack. Again, what is wrong with you two? I come to this site hoping to learn, and learn I have.
I’ve learned not to assume another person’s opinion. I’ve learned not to personally attack others. And I’ve learned that when I do either of the two things mentioned above, my position on the discussion is weakened.
You can tolerate openly homosexual people serving in the US military. That pretty much says it all.
If you go away, the attacks will stop. Keep on and I will keep on. You don't fool me, you have an agenda.
My politics are as clear as a bell? Please tell me what you’re hearing, because I’m pretty sure that I’m not hearing the same chime as you.
I commend you on the great self-analysis. Bravo. You have keen insight into yourself.
Please refresh my memory. Where on this ENTIRE thread did I say that I can tolerate openly homosexual people serving in the U.S. military? Other than defending myself against personal attacks, where is my agenda?
I haven’t even weighed in on the subject.
Learn this, The founder of this site Jim Robinson, has a zero tolerance policy on supporting gays in the military. That's all the info you need.
When someone goes off that half-cocked, you’d have a better chance asking them to quote the voices in their head - they’re paying far more attention to that then all the big words on the ‘puter screen
I’m glad he does. It’s his website and I fully support him!
He also has a policy against personal attacks.
There was a time when FreeRepublic used to frown upon such rudeness, but the “gays in the military” threads bring out the worst in folks.
I prefer to assume that not everyone is as mean-spirited as they come across.
Crickets, I hear crickets.
I’ve been looking for the posting where I said I openly support homosexual people serving in the military. I haven’t found it yet. I’m pretty sure I won’t find it, but I’ll keep looking.
Nope, didn’t find it. Please let me know if you’re more successful.
Amen. And discussions actually involve discussing, not lame-brain insinuations about one’s parenting skills or day dreams about another’s sexual preference - all based on something another party never said. I would call it ‘childish’, but thankfully most children have more decency than all that.
Why would you want to talk about someone pulling the train for the football team in High School? To each their own, I suppose, but as a heterosexual I know that I wouldn’t want to talk about it.
Nope, that’s what I thought. All keyboard, no CPU.
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