Right, always part of their agenda from the get-go. Not so much about giving the sodomites equality by lifting them up, rather by pulling everyone else down.
There have always been some freaks in the military, very few but they were always there. The big push in recent years isn't about removing barriers for the throngs of sodomites waiting to enlist, they don't exist.
The sodomites went after the military simply for the convenience of using them as an inroad to mainstream America.
Everywhere that the question of gay "marriage" has been put on the ballot it has been resoundingly defeated.
New York did not have gay "marriage" on the ballot for the people of New York to vote on. It was rammed through the legislature by the democRATS. They knew full well it would never survive if given a fair shake by the voters.
That's why they went after the military. They could force it on them, a sub culture of the population that was powerless to complain or resist it. There are no long lines of sodomites waiting to join up, they only wanted to use it as another means to force themselves on society.