[dixiedarlindownsouth]

I disagree. “Live and let live” applies equally to the soldier's who don't want this reprobate life style jammed down their throats. And to the ones who will now have to sit through “sensitivity” training and the endless E.O. classes I don't want to walk into the commissary with my three year old son and watch a couple of “men” holding hands and playing house. Keep sex in the bedroom and out of the uniform. That's what “Don't ask Dont tell” was supposed to be about. Pass all the laws that they want. This life style will never be “acceptable” to the vast number of American’s. Our military was the last sane place in America. But we seemed to have lost the war with this one.

[arthurus]

Soldiers.

[Nowhere Man]

I disagree. “Live and let live” applies equally to the soldier's who don't want this reprobate life style jammed down their throats. And to the ones who will now have to sit through “sensitivity” training and the endless E.O. classes I don't want to walk into the commissary with my three year old son and watch a couple of “men” holding hands and playing house. Keep sex in the bedroom and out of the uniform. That's what “Don't ask Dont tell” was supposed to be about. Pass all the laws that they want. This life style will never be “acceptable” to the vast number of American’s. Our military was the last sane place in America. But we seemed to have lost the war with this one.

I can see where goldstategop is coming from, I do think DADT is/was a good compromise. However, I don't like the openess of one's sexual orientation in the military because I do believe it would wreck morale, something we don't need. If it was an office environment or some other workplace thing, I would not care of a person was homosexual or straight, he takes it home at the end of the day and I take mine home. I have a few gay friends and I would never, ever want to see harm come to them and would defend them. They have every right to live wherever they want to and work whererever they want to as long as they have the money and qualifications

The military is a different animal. With the exception on the choice of joining, it is not a volunteer thing, you are assigned whomever and wherever with little or no say. They are there to defend us, not be a social experiment or statement. At the very least, this requires a lot more study but I think DADT should remain in place.