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.
Okay, let’s say for the sake of argument that every stereotype you’ve used about the US military, the US soldier, and gays is 100% correct.
First, how many stereotypical gay men would actually choose a career in the army, even if they could serve openly? Of that number, how many would choose to enter the combat arms, and of that number, how many would choose the Infantry?
And of the few gays who ended up in the Infantry, how many of them would be stupid enough (given the stereotypical US soldier’s attitude towards gays) to make a pass at a straight fellow soldier? The first time it happened, they’d be the guest of honor at a “blanket party” or some similar punishment. As you said, “Soldiers will take action on their own.” Problem solved.
And as to gay women, the stereotypical “butch” homosexual female would be far better suited to military duty than the average heterosexual female, and be far less of a distraction when serving alongside men.
As to gays and their filthy diseases, doesn’t everybody who joins the service get a full medical workup?