I just wanted to point out how much bull it is for you to blame all gays who get discharged under DADT when many of them never told, they were outed, and often by people not even associated with the military.
Do you?
The findings of the
federal judge who reviewed the policy and found it unconstitutional. In her ruling she explained that the policy doesn’t help military readiness and instead has a “direct and deleterious effect” on the armed services by hurting recruitment efforts during wartime and requiring the discharge of service members who have critical skills and training. It is pretty self evident that when you are kicking out hundreds of Arab language specialists under this policy when there is a great demand for them, that it is going to have a deterious effect on our ability to collect intelligence and communicate with Iraqi forces. Now you are entitled to your, "everyone can be replaced" view but when "replaced" means someone else has to end up serving again and again, you are ignoring the fact that morale is going to suffer because the job still needs to be done.
Dude, you are the only person I see on this forum who is left arguing in support of this policy. Even NP said he does not care as long as the troops don't care. At a certain point, you just have to admit you are supporting a bad policy and let it go. If you can't do that, then maybe you ought to take a good long look at yourself and see if maybe this isn't about military policy or what is best for the nation but how you feel about gay people in general.
At some point, those personel admitted to being gay. Unless you can provide a link, proving that anyone, who was discharged under DADT said, "But, I'm not gay. I was falsely accused", or, "Hey, I never admitted to anytying, therefore I can't be discharged", then you have no argument.
maybe you ought to take a good long look at yourself and see if maybe this isn't about military policy or what is best for the nation but how you feel about gay people in general.
So, after saying on umpteen threads, that I suggest lifting the ban on gays, but leaving the DADT policy in place, so as to provide protection for gays and straights alike form discrimination, you
still want to label me a homophobe?
Ya'll have thrown that stupid assed argument out there so much, it doesn't even mean anything. Obviously, anyone who isn't in lockstep with the Libbo-genda is a racist, sexist, homophobe, or bigot.
It's the ultimate in dumb assery to put gay--and straight--soldiers in a position, where their commander can ask them about their sexual preferrence, thereby opening them up to discrimination. What kind of ****ing
idiot would sit back and allow that environment to breed?