HB 444 Civil Unions

[Jon]

I am sure its getting better all the time...

So once we have open gays in the military, does that mean I can join up and be put in a womens barracks? []

The soldiers that I know tell me, once someone if found out to be gay, its becomes very bad for them, And its usually the young ones that have the issues with it.

quote:

---

Originally posted by csgray

Jon,
The same arguments about not using the military for social experimentation were used to argue against desegregating the military. It was argued that unit cohesion and readiness would suffer if you didn't keep the races separate. Sure seems like an absurd argument now.

Polling has been done of actual rank and file soldiers as well as top brass, and it showed that most soldiers under 30 had no problem with gays serving openly in the military, and most knew of one or more soldiers in their own unit who were gay and didn't have an issue with it. Older soldiers and commanding officers on the other hand had big issues with it, but claimed it was because the rank and file soldiers couldn't handle the presence of gay soldiers. There already are many gays serving honorably in the military, the question is just a matter of how closeted they have to be in order to continue their careers. Persecution of gays in the military has actually increased under DADT.

Carol

---

-----------------------------------------------------------
I do not believe that America is better than everybody else...
America "IS" everybody else.
HBAT