Pentagon study: Gays could serve with no harm

Associated Press ^ | Nov 30, 2010 | ANNE FLAHERTY

[YankeeReb]

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon study that argues that gay troops could serve openly without hurting the military's ability to fight is expected to re-ignite debate this month on Capitol Hill over repealing the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Officials familiar with the 10-month study's results have said a clear majority of respondents don't care if gays serve openly, with 70 percent predicting that lifting the ban would have positive, mixed or no results. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the findings hadn't been released.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, who have both said they support repealing the law, were scheduled to discuss the findings with Congress Tuesday morning and with reporters Tuesday afternoon.

Republicans, led by Sen. John McCain of Arizona, have mostly opposed repealing the law because they say efforts to do so are politically driven and dangerous at a time of two wars.

[little jeremiah]

My DH escaped from an Eastern Bloc communist country around 1981. He says that now his land of birth is less communist and Big Brother controller-esque than the US. But that the EU influence is horrible too.

[RichInOC]

Unnngh!

[trisham]

That is both shocking and depressing.

[DakotaGator]

I understand what you are saying but am not as forgiving.

There was a time when Service Chiefs would resign rather than promote & implement destructive policies. Recently a CNO committed suicide because his honor was destroyed. Those are the men we used to promote.

Now Secretary Gates has shown himself to be an Obama lick-spittle without honor. But he is a civilian politician whose lack of integrity is almost expected.

For Admiral Mullen to betray the Navy in this fashion is unpardonable. It is beyond the pale. It is not the only area in which he is breaking the faith.

No. Obama and his handpicked minions are destroying our Armed Forces. At the same time they are rapidly building their own Brown Shirts for oppression at home. And it is all moving very rapidly.