[scripter]

Looking at CDC's numbers, there's a significant number of HIV cases that aren't caused by homosexual contact

What CDC report are you looking at? I track the CDC yearly reports and the 2004 report states most cases are caused from homosexual behavior: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/STATS/2004SurveillanceReport.pdf. Look at pages 10-38.

The 2005 report is due out anytime now.

[kenboy]

I think we're looking at the same numbers, but focusing on different things.

33% of male cases and 46% of all cases are from causes other than male-male sex. (Since 0% of the female cases are from male-male sex, the second number is probably ignorable -- but that's a solid third of cases among men not resulting from male-male sex.) Granted, many are from IV drug use, and I hope there's not much of that in the military -- but again, that's 10% of male cases being caused by something other than gay sex or drugs -- and a lot of the female cases -- and since we can't trust people to tell us if they're gay, and since removing all the gays who get caught would STILL leave us with HIV cases among the remaining soldiers, why not just spend the resources on testing, instead of investigating consensual sex?