I think people miss the whole point here: homosexuality is about SEX! They want to live their lives through their sex style - this is no way to live! There is more to life than sex! The military might and security of the US is NOT a place to experiment with questionable social injustices!
Now picture this, you have 125+ hard bodied, sweaty, young, sexually active Marines all living, showering and sleeping together and you don’t think they “care” if one or more of those in that group are gay? You are WRONG! You shower within six (6) inches of the guy next to you! When I was in, the kwansit huts and most field crappers had no separator walls! There is very little “personal” time in the Military and NONE during boot camp and field operations. Men are not allowed to have females in their barrack rooms to avoid things “getting out of control,” so what is going to stop these guys? Where is the equality in that?
While in the Corps, at Camp Lejeune, we had three Marines get drunk out of their minds and two of them decided to rape their buddy in 1991! Two other Marines walked in on the situation and began to beat these two half-to-death! Before we could stop the beatings, several more Marines jumped in to the fray! These two guys barely survived to get their Court Martial!
I have to say, if it turns into another haven for perverts (like our Catholic seminaries did for a while), being a Marine will take on a whole new meaning for me. This is going to be a tough issue. Can't see a way through it.