Dont Ask Dont tell

[acolyte_to_jippity]

i don't give a shit if you're gay or not. shouldn't have any bearing.

[BladeTwinSwords]

i don't give a shit if you're gay or not. shouldn't have any bearing.

^ pretty much.

[Clone]

a gay soldier can shoot just as well as a straight soldier... whats the difference?? just cause he checks out your junk in the showers doesn't mean he wont take a bullet for ya

Clone

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

It's high time that American military branches join the parts of the 21st century that don't revolve around shooting things or blowing them up. American soldiers serve with openly gay allied troops, and those troops are part of militaries that haven't disintegrated because of homosexuality. Why should the U.S. be taking up the rear, so to speak, in issues pertaining to tolerance and personal freedoms?

[acolyte_to_jippity]

It's high time that American military branches join the parts of the 21st century that don't revolve around shooting things or blowing them up. American soldiers serve with openly gay allied troops, and those troops are part of militaries that haven't disintegrated because of homosexuality. Why should the U.S. be taking up the rear, so to speak, in issues pertaining to tolerance and personal freedoms?

although, to be fair, it's less "we don't want you" but more "we don't want to hear about it." basically "don't make a huge deal about it kthxbai!"

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

That would really only fly if personnel were also instructed to stop talking about their heterosexual relationships, but I'm sure that most people would find that pretty preposterous. If you don't want to hear about it, just don't listen to it. That's all there is to it.

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

i dont really want this to be a debate.... BUT.. it is not much of an issue with new stright soldiers and new gay soldiers as it is with soldiers who are already in, dealing with soldiers who are gay, joining.

now do not get me wrong, plenty of units out there know of gay soldiers in the military already. but those particular homosexual soldiers joined understainding that they lost the right to be openly gay in the military. they joined soloey to join the military. then hid the fact that they were gay.
the people in those units knew about it and accepted that and kept it secret as well. Trusting there life along side one another.

im not saying gays are going to be bad soldiers but the amount of new "gay soldiers" who are completly able are going to end up pushing out other completely able soldiers from there jobs, making such soldier retire early.

(fyi, the Military has a quota, to go over that quota is not a good thing... "fed taxs pay for those soldiers, alot of money goes into those soldiers (including myself) thus there being a limit to the size of our military)

other soldiers who may have a prejudice arnt going to want these openly gay "i can finnaly be openly gay in the military" Soldiers around let alone in there SAME barracks.

do you think, they will organize and spend the extra money on spreate barracks?

[Mrs. Xen_Warrior]

a gay soldier can shoot just as well as a straight soldier... whats the difference?? just cause he checks out your junk in the showers doesn't mean he wont take a bullet for ya

Clone

+1

[&&toasties]

i don't give a shit if you're gay or not. shouldn't have any bearing.

Agreed.

That shit is stupid and is next to racism.

If gay people aren't allowed, then blacks or asians or mexicans shouldn't be either.

[OMGBEARS]

If they're willing to die for their country- why SHOULDN'T they have the right to do whatever they would wish with their personal life? I've always been against the DADT policy that the military holds here in the USA. It's 100% discrimination against homosexuals and hearkens back to a time when non-white soldiers were kept to their own outfits within the army due to prejudice. Did those same soldiers not die for the very rights they weren't able to fully enjoy? America has always been racist, and discriminatory. Last week it was non-white, yesterday it was women, and today it's homosexuals. People need something to hate/be afraid of or they do stupid things like live their own lives rather than choosing to dictate to others what is acceptable.

Truly, it's deplorable that in this day and age such a thing still exists in a first-world country.