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How about we replace “don’t ask, don’t tell” with “don’t give a rat’s posterior?” The only problem I see is if someone is “in the closet” and the threat of being “outed” could be used to blackmail them- that would be a security risk. And that applies to any such secret, not just sexual orientation.

Whenever I hear that gays serving openly would “cause dissent in the ranks, undermine military discipline” etc., I consider that an attack on the character of our men and women in uniform. What, is every soldier a screaming homophobe? That’s the sort of hateful generalization I expect from the Left. It saddens me to see it from the Right as well.

Whenever I hear that gays serving openly would “cause dissent in the ranks, undermine military discipline” etc., I consider that an attack on the character of our men and women in uniform.

You may consider it to be an attack but it is not. It is merely a reflection of human nature. It would cause dissent in the ranks and it would undermine military discipline. That is simply reality.

I’m willing to wager quite a bit of money that you’ve never spent a DAY in uniform.

Since you have not, let me clue you in to some realities.

1) Service Members live together in VERY tight quarters both on post and deployed. We’re not talking college roommates here, it’s all far closer than that. They shower together, they hang out together. Gays are incompatible with that lifestyle around raging heterosexuals, especially in the combat arms, and double especially in the Infantry.

2) It absolutely will cause dissent in the ranks and undermine discipline. The Army especially is already a VERY P.C. organization. Now add the most politically protected class to that equation and let them be...the way they are. See what happens. A male Soldier sexually harasses another male Soldier, he complains to his CoC, nothing happens b/c nobody wants to approach the subject (a la MAJ Muslim Nutcase at Fort Hood), and Soldiers will take action on their own.

3) Gays are massively more expensive with regards to medical care due to their very sick lifestyle. Add those diseases to blood getting splattered on unknowing medics, transfused into Soldiers who need blood right away, and you have real problems on top of them swamping the already-strained military medical system.

I could go on, but anyone who throws out the words “homophobe” and “hateful generalizations” is already a lost cause. You are demonstrably incapable of rational thought.