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Marine officer: Gays, straights shouldn't share housing

Obviously is interested in making alterations so as to allow gays to serve in the military and you STILL call him a bigot? Where's the bigotry?

The fact that he wants to separate them is a bigoted move. he is presuming the worst in behavior. his opinion on this tells me that he sees gays as not being able to control their actions. That is a judgment on his part and bigoted. How do you not clearly see this.
 
Yes, it is.

Prove harassment in a military which allows gays to serve openly happens more often than in a military that does not.

It's the reason that males and females do not billet together.

It's ignorance of the highest order to think that it wouldn't.

Homosexual men already serve in the same rooms as straight men. Have you forgotten that fact? No. Your argument is simply a red herring.
 
My problem with it is this: what the heck is the difference, in the Marine Corps, between not going public with your personal sexual preference, and going public with it?

Making your heterosexuality public in the Marine Corps does not get you removed. Being a homosexual does. That is the difference.
 
Wow!! Glad to see how you feel about the men and women that keep your smart ass safe from the bad guys.

It's probably a good thing you never served. I saw plenty of smart people in the service that were just in the way and in a couple cases wound up getting people killed.

Perhaps i should thank you for not serving. You probably saved lives.

I'm sure you can teach a well trained chimp to shoot straight so why would someone that can actually think want to bother?
 
Are you going to cry about a post that destroyed your assertions because there was an ad hom in it? Well good to know your trolling ways haven't changed.

A few three word sentences destroyed my argument? :rofl
 
I'm sure you can teach a well trained chimp to shoot straight so why would someone that can actually think want to bother?

This is why you are unable to form an opinion on DADT from an informed position. You lack the knowledge of the military and ability to see the big picture.

All you know, is that you wants DADT abolished and anyone that disagrees, no matter the reason, is a bigot. Hell, not only is that not an informed position, it's not even an enlightened position. And, you call yourself a superior thinker?

BTW, I love the racist chimp comparison. Are black soldiers nothing more than well trained chimps?
 
Navy, would you approve of a law that bans black people from the military because of somebody's opinion?

Its as different as night and day.......You can't compare a race of people with a class of people who are defined by their sexual preference.......
 
Prove harassment in a military which allows gays to serve openly happens more often than in a military that does not.

I can't prove that, because gays aren't allowed to serve openly in the United States military.



Homosexual men already serve in the same rooms as straight men. Have you forgotten that fact? No. Your argument is simply a red herring.


That horse is dead, you can put the stick down.
 
Making your heterosexuality public in the Marine Corps does not get you removed. Being a homosexual does. That is the difference.

You failed to see the overall point I was making. More power to you for your selective reading...
 
This is why you are unable to form an opinion on DADT from an informed position. You lack the knowledge of the military and ability to see the big picture.

All you know, is that you wants DADT abolished and anyone that disagrees, no matter the reason, is a bigot. Hell, not only is that not an informed position, it's not even an enlightened position. And, you call yourself a superior thinker?

BTW, I love the racist chimp comparison. Are black soldiers nothing more than well trained chimps?

Having served in the military would have dropped my IQ so i would fail to see this man for what he is. Is that would you are saying about my not serving. How is that construed as racist in your little military mind maybe but in reality you just feel threatened by my opinion and can't think of any way better to defend your silly position.

This policy is like the bathrooms in the pre civil rights south where there was a sink and toilet for whites and one for blacks. This is as ignorant and bigoted as that policy was. See this bigot for what he is.
 
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Having served in the military would have dropped my IQ so i would fail to see this man for what he is. Is that would you are saying about my not serving. How is that construed as racist in your little military mind maybe but in reality you just feel threatened by my opinion and can't think of any way better to defend your silly position.

This policy is like the bathrooms in the pre civil rights south where there was a sink and toilet for whites and one for blacks. This is as ignorant and bigoted as that policy was. See this bigot for what he is.

You said that because I'm black and you were comparing me to a monkey.

I saw right through the BS, trust me.
 
You said that because I'm black and you were comparing me to a monkey.

I saw right through the BS, trust me.

Like I would care if you were black. I don't see lines and divisions. I will take it back and use lions. No they don't have thumbs. I have to stick with chimps sorry about that.
 
I can't prove that, because gays aren't allowed to serve openly in the United States military.






That horse is dead, you can put the stick down.

How about all the other countries that allow gay people to serve openly and have shown no significant issues?
 
Its as different as night and day.......You can't compare a race of people with a class of people who are defined by their sexual preference.......

Really? Why not. Prove a gay man has any more control over their sexual orientation than a black guy does over the skin of his color.
 
A few three word sentences destroyed my argument? :rofl

I'm sorry you can't make actual points and rely on senseless correlations to make your "argument".

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You failed to see the overall point I was making. More power to you for your selective reading...

You asked what the difference was. I explained it to you. I'm sorry if the rest of your post was the rehashing of the same old arguments about the boys club and how the military is so much more different than everyone else. To some extent it is true. Only in the opposite direction.
 
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So by your logic, that means that because you haven't served as President of the United States. Then you must have no grounds to attack him?

But i'll tell you what. If I did, or do serve. I don't mind one bit a gay in the foxhole with me. He's not gonna try and make me gay, or try and kissey kissey me.

He means that in order to give your opinions any creditability you would either provide supporting evidence or qualify your own authority on the topic.

You failed to give any evidence at all, so the only thing left is the authority behind your experiences. Without havering served in some capacity, your opinions have no credibility and mean nothing.

I suggest you begin linking to sources which substantiated your arguments.

..and no, I'm someone who strongly support gays serving in the military.
 
I can't prove that, because gays aren't allowed to serve openly in the United States military.

Here I'll show you the steps.

1. Find a military which allows gays to openly serve.
2. Find the level of sexual harassment in it before and after it allowed gays to openly serve.
3. Compare level of sexual harassment in that military to current U.S. levels.

The interwebz is yo frun.

That horse is dead, you can put the stick down.

You make black people look dumb.
 
I'm not losing anything. The man is a bigot and that is not name calling that is what he is. If you want a bigot running a branch of your military knock yourself out. Who else among the troops does this guy hate? Women, blacks, short people etc. He is a hateful bigot and has no business leading anyone anywhere.

:roll: please. supporting DADT does not make one a bigot any more than not supporting homosexual marriage does.

Having served in the military would have dropped my IQ

:lol: well that pretty much lets us know that you have no idea what you are talking about. serving in the military has thus far forced me to expand my memory, my analytical ability, my language ability, my ability to process massive amounts of information rapidly, and my ability to mentally function at high speed while under stress.
 
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Really? Why not. Prove a gay man has any more control over their sexual orientation than a black guy does over the skin of his color.

Why don't you prove that a gay man isn't simply choosing rather than it being an issue of night and day? Just because you're liberal doesn't mean that you don't have to prove what you say is true but everyone else does. It goes both ways.

BTW - my questioning your ignorance has nothing to do with my own thoughts about the issue. I'm just saying you can't expect everyone else to prove every comment they make, but expect others to fully accept everything you say without proving it either.
 
Why don't you prove that a gay man isn't simply choosing rather than it being an issue of night and day? Just because you're liberal doesn't mean that you don't have to prove what you say is true but everyone else does. It goes both ways.

Easy:

Homosexual behavior due to genetics and environmental factors | Eureka! Science News

Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world's largest study of twins. Writing in the scientific journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, researchers from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm report that genetics and environmental factors (which are specific to an individual, and may include biological processes such as different hormone exposure in the womb), are important determinants of homosexual behaviour.

Dr Qazi Rahman, study co-author and a leading scientist on human sexual orientation, explains: "This study puts cold water on any concerns that we are looking for a single 'gay gene' or a single environmental variable which could be used to 'select out' homosexuality - the factors which influence sexual orientation are complex. And we are not simply talking about homosexuality here - heterosexual behaviour is also influenced by a mixture of genetic and environmental factors.

BBC NEWS | Health | How homosexuality is 'inherited'

Nature encourages mothers to pass on a "gay trait" to their male offspring by boosting their fertility, the Italian University of Padova team believes.

This would keep the pattern of gay inheritance alive, they told the Royal Society's Biological Sciences journal.

Critics of the theory argue a gay gene would eventually be wiped out because gay couples do not procreate.

Homosexuality: Nature or Nurture in AllPsych Journal

D.F. Swaab conducted the next noteworthy experiment in 1990. This experiment became the first to document a physiological difference in the anatomical structure of a gay man's brain. Swaab found in his post-mortem examination of homosexual males' brains that a portion of the hypothalamus of the brain was structurally different than a heterosexual brain. The hypothalamus is the portion of the human brain directly related to sexual drive and function. In the homosexual brains examined, a small portion of the hypothalamus, termed the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), was found to be twice the size of its heterosexual counterpart [2].

At the same time, another scientist, Laura S. Allen made a similar discovery in the hypothalamus as well. She found that the anterior commissure (AC) of the hypothalamus was also significantly larger in the homosexual subjects than that of the heterosexuals [2]. Both Swaab's and Allen's results became a standing ground for the biological argument on homosexuality. The very fact that the AC and the SCN are not involved in the regulation of sexual behavior makes it highly unlikely that the size differences results from differences in sexual behavior. Rather the size differences came prenatally during sexual differentiation. The size and shape of the human brain is determined biologically and is impacted minutely, if at all by behavior of any kind.

I showed you mine. Now show me yours. The problem with your argument is that it hinges on the false belief that a person can simply choose to be gay or straight. They can't. No more than you and I can choose to be straight. What we can choose is what lifestyles we want to lead. A person can choose to live a lifestyle of heterosexuality and remain gay. The same goes for a gay person who chooses to live a heterosexual lifestyle. What can not be simply chosen is which sex you are attracted to. This is determined by genetic and environmental factors.

BTW - my questioning your ignorance has nothing to do with my own thoughts about the issue. I'm just saying you can't expect everyone else to prove every comment they make, but expect others to fully accept everything you say without proving it either.

See above.
 
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Really? Why not. Prove a gay man has any more control over their sexual orientation than a black guy does over the skin of his color.

Well all I know is there many documented cases of men and women changing there life style and I don't know of any blacks changing theirs...In fact we had a case here in Washington a couple of years ago where a female colonel in the Washington National Guard at age about 60 and after being married for 40 years with many children and grandchildren decided she was a lesbian divorced her husband and took up with another lesbian......

There are many cases like that where men have changed, married and are happily raising a family..........
 
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