I think it’s wrong to put sexuality at the forefront in any respect. Why is it that we can’t as a society discuss politics and religion in a public forum but it is socially acceptable to discuss private matters (such as sex and sexuality) in public.
If it’s against SOP to talk about your sexuality, and you do so, then you should be reprimanded. However, as per DADT, if the military finds out that you’re gay then you’re out, regardless of conduct. Does that sound fair?
As for gays, I respect them as people but don’t expect me to condone their sexual preference or get offended if I say they are wrong. I feel that any form of promiscuity is wrong, homosexuality is just another form of it that placates primarily to lust.
Did you just equate homosexuality to promiscuity? LOL
Discrimination? Of course it’s discrimination. So what? The military has discriminated since day 1. They don’t allow people with all manner of medical afflictions. They don’t allow people that are too short or too tall. They don’t allow people that are too heavy or too lean. They don’t allow people with gang tattoos and gang ties. They don’t allow felons. They don’t allow people who can’t run fast enough. It’s the nature of the military to discriminate because not everyone should serve.
Right, people shouldn’t serve if they can’t perform the function of the job. In the case of gays, they can perform the function of the job. It is the weakness of others that forces these men and women out of the military, not their performance. We in the US find that kind of discrimination generally unjust. Lets pretend we’re talking about blacks in the military, then apply the quote above. In both cases, either race or sexuality, you have no control over the outcome, so why be punished for it?
Gays are about 2% of the entire population. Why should the remaining 98% have to feel uncomfortable in the place where they not only work, but must also live?
You could use that same argument for slavery, and end up in about the same place. But here’s the rebuttal, if you live in a nation that guarantees the freedom and equal rights for all under the law then you can’t discriminate unjustly, and feeling uncomfortable isn’t a good enough reason. If these soldiers are so weak as to crumble when a gay man looks at them then those people will crumble when they see a dead body or a friend get shot. These are not the people I want in the military.
I do not believe that Christians should be unkind to gays or treat them in ugly ways.
But, institutionalized discrimination is ok?
Also notice how the liberal mindset is to take away the rights of all (freedom of speech) to cater to one small segment of society.
LOL wut? First, who speaks for all liberals? Second, what free speech is being taken away, or are you making things up to be angry? No one is telling you not to hate gays, or accept gays, but I am personally saying you have to tolerate them in a work place, regardless of where that place is.
You want a look at violence and hatred, look at the gay community during the Proposition 8 rallies in California, but that never got much air time on the shame-stream media. Christians merely wanted to uphold the term marriage for a man and a woman, if a man and a man or woman and woman want to enter a civil union they can but don’t trample on marriage as it is a God-given privilege. I would make the point that all “marriage” outside of any religious community should be a civil union, especially those done by the Justice of the Peace since we are this “secular nation” that just-so-happens to be based on Christian principles and was founded with documents using language such as Creator, God and Divine Providence.
This is completely off topic and nonconstructive. Please try and stay on topic.
Because that is the liberal mindset, agendas supersede reality.
I would have thought with the recent priest pedophile scandals you would learn not to make ugly generalizations. Please try to stay on topic.
I wish public society in general would go back to “don’t ask, don’t tell.” People should not talk about their sex life at work. The military is work. What ever happened to the idea that a person should not kiss and tell?
Lets assume the kissed someone off base, off duty, but another co-worker happened to see it, and report the incident. Should that person be fired from their job?
