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Woo, go suck some dicks, boys!

"We're not going back."

...until the next president elected by the religious right.

>> ^gwiz665:

Woo, go suck some dicks, boys!


I'm way ahead of you!

Does this make our military stronger?

No.

Losing talented and committed servicemen/women because of their sexual preference definitely didn't make your military weaker. Sure.

I mean, ok, you probably won't win very many wars because you allowed gay and lesbians to fight for your country, but are you really arguing that losing experienced personnel becuase of some dumb rule didn't weaken your armed forces?

DADT applied to "desk soldiers" too -- multi-lingual military analysts who spoke Arabic.

Lantern53 is a know-nothing troglodyte who is probably trolling us to get a reaction. But I love reminding folks of what DADT cost us -- speakers of fluent Arabic. The insanity is off the charts.

>> ^lantern53:

Does this make our military stronger?
No.


Oh how wrong you are, so wrong it's cute! Isn't he cute?

From here it's only a short jump from gays-as-equals to gays as protected class with special rights and privileges.

Headlines coming soon:

Gay officer accuses command of denied promotion due to being gay

VA struggles with costs of caring for HIV-positive soldiers

Gay soldiers seek separate housing

>> ^lantern53:

Does this make our military stronger?
No.


Not only are you obviously wrong but you're asking the wrong question. You should be asking, "Does this make our military weaker?"

The answer is the same, of course, and since there's no harm in allowing gays to serve their country, there's no reason to outlaw it except plain old bigotry and homophobia.

>> ^lantern53:

Does this make our military stronger?
No.


I think the only way I could see this as partially correct is because when I was in the Navy, it wasn't secret who was gay and it didn't matter one bit. Of course you will get some homophobic people, just as there some racist people too - you can't avoid that when you are accepting people from across a large, diverse nation. Of course, some people are just assholes too.

But I'm looking at this from the viewpoint of a straight man who had/has a couple gay friends. It might be different if I was gay. In fact, now I am remembering one guy that got drunk and had sex with another man in the parking lot when we were pulled into a port (I think San Diego?) If it was a man and a women, they would have been officially reprimanded and life went on, but both of the men were kicked out of the military. That was fucked up.

Everyone's different, but some people still want to force their beliefs onto other peoples' actions. As long as those actions are involving consenting adults, I don't care what they do.

I seem to have went off on a tangent. My point is either you are being sarcastic or haven't been in the military. All this does is make the unofficial official and remove a layer of protection for people acting like assholes towards one particular group.