"The armies of other nations have allowed gays to serve openly in the military. The reason they could afford to do this is simple: they could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn’t allow them to serve in ours."
And because most other countries (especially the UK) aren't bigoted. If recruits are sufficiently healthy enough, the British Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Royal Marines (even a few in the SAS, it's rumoured. One Word: Spartans), they're accepted. Regardless of their sexuality.
"They knew they could count on the strength, might, power, and cohesion of the U.S. military to intervene whenever and wherever necessary to pull their fannies out of the fire and squash the forces of tyranny wherever they raised their ugly heads around the world."
Without the info supplied by Bletchley Park (a.k.a. 'Station X'; codename 'ULTRA') via the decryptions of Nazi-encoded Enigma transmissions, the war in Europe part of WWII could have lasted far longer than 1945 (even as far as 1949, it's said by military experts), with the loss of at least 600,000 more US troops. But it didn't. Those 600,000 US personnel were sent back home or never saw action. Thus ensuring future generations of American people today. Mayhaps one of said people was your father/grandfather, Bryan? Thus you & your country owe the UK more than you can even imagine. 'Lease Lend'? DEBT PAID.
PROTIP: The man mainly responsible for said decryptions at Bletchley Park - thus said info being shared with Roosevelt/Eisenhower, and therefore shortening the war & lessening US troop casualties - as Alan Turing. A homosexual. Your country - nay, perhaps your own very existence - owes more than you can imagine to someone you're supposed to despise.
...oh, and 'pull their fannies out of the fire and squash the forces of tyranny'? Ever hear of the Battle of Britain in 1940? Apart from some Free Polish/Czech/French pilots in the RAF, 'The Few' in their Spitfires & Hurricanes were able to fend off the far superior Luftwaffe - and make Hitler cack himself at the thought of invading Britain.
No USA required.
"Those days are now gone. We will no longer be able to bail out these other emasculated armies because ours will now be feminized and neutered beyond repair, and there is no one left to bail us out. We have been permanently weakened as a military and as a nation by these misguided and treasonous Republican senators, and the world is now a more dangerous place for us all."
So President Obama signed into law the repealment of DADT today. The Repubican senators responsible? You & your ilk voted for them. Oh, the irony.
DADT no longer exists. UK-style acceptance of LGBT personnel into the US Armed Forces. As of today, it's the law (and you & your fundie ilk must accept it; your own Scripture - Romans 13:1-2 - orders you to). Deal with it.
