“I’ll tell you why having openly homosexual military members in the military is an awful idea.”
First question i have is how much time you did in the military?
“ Go to West Hollywood or San Francisco the last weekend in June during “Gay Pride” festivities and take a good look at what these people are doing.”
Enjoying themselves in the face of your hatred?
Which kinda reminds me of being in the Navy back when Norfolk and Virginia Beach had people with signs in the yard, ‘Dog and Sailors keep off the grass.’
"Then ask yourself if any of them should have anything to do with national security, and if they should serve with, or be in charge of you, your son or your daughter if they were in the military.”
Wait, what? You look at what they do in their off time and judge how they’ll behave on duty? What a fucking moron. I did 20 in the service. See if you can find any films of a ‘shellback ceremony’ or a ‘bluenose ceremony’ and ask yourself the same ignorant, bigoted questions.
“If that doesn’t convince you,”
It doesn’t. You’ve explained nothing except your prejudice.
“then you need to understand that homosexuals predominantly want to serve in the military in order to have access to people their own age with whom to engage in sex.”
And that’s why sailors try to get orders to ships that pull into foreign ports. For the cheap hookers. And of the 14 commands I was at, the only time i actually caught people having sex while AT THE COMMAND it was heterosexuals.
"It’s just that simple."
So, what if it is? Sex while ON THE SHIP is prohibited. Gay or straight, sailors or civilians, girlfriends, wives, or prostitutes you snuck aboard and fucked in the fanroom.
"It’s all about sex, and not about serving the nation.”
The two are not mutually exclusive.
“ It is not unheard of to have a lesbian officer coerce a lower enlisted woman into engaging in lesbian sexual activity.”
It’s a LOT more heard of for hetero officers to coerce young junior females. So, no worse having homosexuals in uniform.
“I’m an officer and you’re a private, who are they going to believe if you tell them I forced you to have sex with me?”
The one rape i know of, she (Torpedoman 2nd Class) turned his (Lieutenant) ass in and he got kicked off the command. Post-tailhook, the service is taking that a lot more seriously.
“These are two actual cases, and many more like them have occurred, which prompted the ban to begin with.”
No, sweetie, the ‘ban’ was prompted by religious bias. But this is a secular nation and there’s no secular reason to support that.
“Having openly gay men and women in close living quarters with heterosexuals would make straight soldiers uncomfortable, to say the least.”
Some. We called them, ‘Idiots.’
“The morale of units would decline almost immediately, and re-enlistments would most certainly suffer.”
When they desegregated the military, they had a similar loss of personnel. No one missed them.
“Asking committed homosexuals to refrain from sexual encounters while in the military is unrealistic”
No one asks anyone to go without sex for their enlistment, just their deployments.
“Could the Army stop a homosexual transvestite soldier from wearing a female soldier’s uniform while on duty?”
Transvestites? Yes.
Transgenders? No.
“Should gays be allowed to form civil partnerships in the military and be allowed to occupy military family housing and adopt children?”
Yes.
“Is the military prepared to handle increased health care costs associated with homosexual activity?”
This is the military that supplied my chief with viagra we’re talking about, right?
And the homophobes grossly exaggerate the ‘increased costs’ of gay sex. They’ve had gay sailors in the Navy for 250 years.