Just added my .02
Here's mine, duck and cover.
This is not an issue about race, this is an issue that never should have been brought up.
Sexual preference in a group of men and woman that have no choice but to associating, living with fighting with and dieing with.
Human Nature can not be changed when it comes to sex. I have found that men who are secure in their maleness in the military do outrageous things to their straight friends, wet willies, titty twisters, all in good fun, all are straight and just goofing off. A mans thing to blow off steam and release tension with belly laughs.
What happens when open gays join them.?? Who will claim sexual harassment, if the gay men do this--- all the straights would throw up.
We know how it goes in heterosexual life, the number of law suites by employs claiming harassment because their superiors put their arm on their shoulder or watch when they bend over.
Take this to an environment where we will soon have separate camps of straights and gays. The gays will only be comfortable within their own group and the straights will be ragged on for making friends with a gay.
Unlike a racial difference when nothing is thought of men headed out for a night on the town with 3 or more different races in a group., But few gay men will want to go to a female strip bar and even fewer straight men will want to be seen entering a male gay bar.
I agree that when it comes to a fight with an enemy then all will pull together for the collective good. In a fire fight few will care if the people around them have a thing for sheep or sleazy woman, all they care about is that everyone keeps firing and covering their ass.
Our military does not spend 24/7 fighting and shooting, there are days weeks and months of no action and that is where the problems come in. I have been told that boredom is the enemy of the military, Too much time to think about home, family's and problems for family they can do nothing about. All it takes is a look or word to cause a knock down drag out fight.
How the hell does anyone think this is going to work . Straights sent to sentisivy training with Gays, no one have taken in the fact that it takes more then a class of two to change their attitude toward the straights and their manhood.
Men and their manhood has ruled the world, even a very young male child will if you throw something in their lap cover their genitiles, knees go together before anything lands in their lap.
All this is not based on race, religion or origon, this is based on human sexuality that is different in us all.
Insane to think that one can mix two oppisits and get good results for most anything.
Going to piss me off big time when I find out a family member with 2 kids has to wait 3 years for housing while a Gay serviceman and his " new wife" get housing before them.
TRG, you got me going here , the posibilitys we have thought of that will come in down the line.
Ever think about how the Navy could function if 7 red necks were assigned to a destroyer and all the crew including the captain was Gay.----How to explain why 7 of the crew jumped overboard in the middle of the Atlantic.
Rant over for now.