I have mine and will chime in after hearing some comments.

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There's alot of people out there that are against gays & say things like "we should put them all on their own deserted island. That's crazy!
What we should do is allow them to serve & put them on the front lines. Use them as bait & decoys. Armor for our tanks. It will kill two birds with one stone. Drop fags not bombs.

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jonSun raises many fine points but he fails to acknowledge the overwhelming success of projects such as Get Behind the Darkies and various schemes by Tyler Perry.

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I really just want Jake Benson to come in here and say "RWANNNNDA".

I'm not telling.

So marines weren't gay enough ALREADY?

Don't ask Tbills.

Somebody told me, you had a boyfriend, who killed a whole village, of muslims in Kabul, Afghanistan last year.

I think it would hinder a units performance. There's a lot of people that hate gays and if your squad leader is one of them I would say you're screwed. Even off the field there would be a lot of discrimination, being put on working parties and what not.

I doubt anyone will actually "come out".

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Nou is a fag

Mixing political correctness and war together isn't the best idea. I prefer to leave the greatest weight of opinion on the matter to the people who's lives are actually on the line. Too bad our politicians don't ever consider doing the same. We've heard from every politician and politically correct social engineer on this issue, both of which are never going to face the working end of an anti-American AK-47, so maybe it's time to ask the troops on the ground what effect the repeal of DADT have on their units:

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66.5 percent of U.S. Marine combat forces surveyed by a special Defense Department working group said that putting homosexuals in their units would hurt their effectiveness in the field, and 47.8 percent of Marines in combat units specifically said putting homosexuals in their units would hurt their effectiveness “in an intense combat situation.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...forces-say-putt



$100 bucks says that says the Defense Department starts homophobia sensitivity training seminars by next spring (if they haven't already).

I don't believe that the Military should be able to discriminate on almost any basis for its recruitment, but with that in mind I didn't see any problem with 'don't ask, don't tell'. It was a fairly encompassing policy that was, in itself, quite tolerant. Sexual orientation should be irrelevant- you're not going on a fucking luxury cruise. And yeah, just as Chris Crossland said, it could easily hinder unit performance. When it comes to things like skin colour and gender, it's all very superficial and obviously up-front, but it's still been a very large deal over the past century that continually becomes an issue time and again whether you like it or not. There is racial discrimination in the military and sexual discrimination all over the place, so now people are encouraged to be up-front about what they like to do behind closed doors? Absolutely unnecessary, and it obviously puts a lot of men and women in danger.

What do you do about showers? Quarters? Will there be segregation there? I think that this will simply put a lot more pressure on internal affairs, since they purposely train soldiers to be discriminate- that's what selective violence is all about. I just don't believe this is the civil rights cause and crusade liberal policy-makers make it out to be. It's painting a big, fucking red target on certain people, and the blowback (heheheh) is going to be far worse than they might accommodate for.

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