Nathaniel Frank, author of Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America, is senior research fellow at the Palm Center, University of California-Santa Barbara.
That is the trouble with allowing a very small group whose minority status is based on a lifestyle choice that can’t be proven and isn’t visibly noticeable unless they choose to tell others.
You would have to either house them separately and have entire “Gay” unit and that would be viewed as discriminatory. There is nothing worse than jealousy in close quarters.
However the activists won’t ever be satisfied until all Americans become homosexuals or they control us breeders. They would be marching against being house separately.
They would want subgroups to be allowed to join the Army. All we need is a bunch of Klingers in the military.
Many homosexuals are not only very immature,but Deep down they hate what they do and who they are. Like anyone with an addiction others with the addiction want everyone else to be as miserable as they are.
The only way you could treat all individuals in the military equally is to either go back to the old ban, or continue the don’t ask don’t tell.
It is their choice to join the military and their choice to actively engage in risky and life threatening sexual behavior. Therefore they should know that abstinence will be a requirement. All soldiers regardless of their preference should know that sexual relations between soldiers will not be allowed.
When you have to trust the other guy with your life, you don’t want him staring at your crotch while you are showering.