We're discussing it because we lost this last election, and we lost it bad. So, yeah, it looks like Obama is going to overturn the ban on open gays in th military as an ideological award for his base on the left. Why wouldn't he? The only people he is going to piss off are people who'd never vote for him anyway.
There's a lesson in that, I guess- the in-fighting we saw during the election ensured that a less-than-perfect GOP candidate lost to a guy who may very well remake America to an extent we haven't seen since the Great Society.
I just dont’t see the problem with this. My Libertarian side kicks in and I take the Heinlein approach — everyone should be allowed to serve in some capacity. Frankly, I think you are all overreacting.
Who cares if a person is gay or straight if they’re a good soldier? We need to be fighting the fight against what matters — when Obama tries to implement universal health care (which will result in the ruin of the US health system), higher taxes (which will gives us a real depression), install super liberal judges (which will prolong the nightmare that is abortion no demand and more rights from criminals than victims), etc. These are the issues that matter.