Don't Ask Don't Tell Don't Change It
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January 17, 2011
This may be closing the barn door after the cow escaped, but I still have to write this.
Of all the very damaging things the Obama administration, Speaker Pelosi, Harry Reid and the 110th Congress have done to our nation is the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
What this administration is so inept at realizing (among so many other things) is We Are At War . The last thing the military needs right now is to use it’s resources and man-power trying to determine how it is we will implement openly homosexual men and women into the military.
As an Army wife of over 31 years (now my husband is retired) and as an Army Mom, I can tell you DADT has worked well for quite some time now. There are homosexual men and women who serve. We all have known them. The argument that the DADT policy denies these individuals the right to “be who they are” is ludicrous on so many levels, it’s difficult to know how to address this argument.
If a person defines themselves by the choice of sexual partner they prefer, then they don’t need to be in the military in the first place. I am a woman, I am not a “heterosexual woman.” There’s way more to me than my desire for my husband I dare say. I would never dream of confining a description of “who I am” to who I have sex with. I would be highly insulted if someone labeled me a “heterosexual woman.” I had better leave a much greater mark in this life than merely a definition of who I like to go to bed with.
The other reason this is such a ludicrous statement with regard to serving in the military is that service to your country in the Armed Forces of the United States of America is a self-sacrificing duty even unto death. To have a “need” to openly label oneself with regard to their sexual preference means, don’t join the military. If being openly homosexual is so important to the individual, then serving in the military isn’t something they are cut out for. If a homosexual’s desire to proclaim how they’re having sex is far above their desire to selflessly serve their country, then we do not want that type of individual to serve, ever.
We have always known homosexuals serve. They have been accepted because their lack of proclaiming the type of person they prefer to have sex with has allowed one and all to focus on their sense of duty, honor and commitment to country. It has worked, it didn’t need fixing and most of all, the military should never be used as a social experiment no less during time of war.
The other question is, where to house homosexuals?
Openly homosexual men can’t bunk with heterosexual men for obvious reasons.
Women who serve in the military I’m guessing won’t want to shower with homosexual men.
They can’t bunk with each other, again for obvious reasons.
Take that line of logic through to openly homosexual females and we have ourselves a big problem.
Right now they serve in the military, everyone who serves knows it, it has been working, it never should have been repealed during a time of war.
Lastly, open homosexuals will mean many will leave the armed forces. Already there is fall-out due to religious beliefs that are protected by the constitution and forced “sensitivity training”. One Army Colonel who resigned called it "indoctrination."
The Military Times reports: "If the policy was repealed, nearly 10% of respondents said they would not re-enlist or extend their service, and 14% said they would consider terminating their careers." With more than 1 million serving in the armed forces, replacing 10%-14% outweighs the cost of replacing the roughly 800 "don't ask, don't tell" annual discharges.
Quite honestly, this entire process of assimilating openly homosexual soldiers will become a nightmare. Do we really want our military bogged down with trying to figure this social experiment out? At the cost of what? The lives of our highly trained soldiers? We citizens should be far more up in arms about this than many other matters before this new Congress and Senate.
This undermines the very safety of our country by undermining our combat readiness. Write or call your congressmen and ask them to stop the damage already done and reinstate what has been in place and has worked. Ask them to stop this repeal before it’s too late.
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This is just another leftist step in the normalizing and accepting of what everyone damn well knew was a sexual perversion just a couple of decades ago.
The next step in that agenda is homosexual marriage, and as our schools continue to indoctrinate our children and churn out new liberals, that step looms ever closer.
You're correct of course and it will be a disaster, but I don't know what we can do about it.
Carol
Another well written hub, again well stated and to the point.
Congress has spent too much time on this subject, and not enough time on the economy and unemployment.
Even if DADT was a real issue for Congress, its priority would be way down in the list of serious problems in the country.
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Amen to this hub I feel as the ones that have already applied. We need to go to the streets preaching God's Word and converting people. The old-time evangelists always referred to people being saved as converting, yes convert the very lives of the lost and we will see a change.
Very well said Wayne. You've added some excellent points and I'm so glad as usual that you stopped by.
Carol
Thanks WillStarr for taking the time to tell us how you feel. Your comments are always colorful to say the least! ;-)
Carol
OpinionDuck - I see it this way - if we decimate our military, there won't be a country left for the Congress to be worried about no less other things on their agenda. This is a dangerous time to implement this experiment. Very dangerous. Our military is already stretched at the seams - they do not need this utter nonsense on their plate to try to figure out.
I do thank you though for giving us your opinion. You're probably right, but I do hope you're wrong and they do something about this.
Thanks Michael - you are absolutely right!
Carol
I agree completely. Gays have always served in the military, so why make an issue of it now? This defies common sense and makes an issue out of a non-issue.
Will is absolutely correct in his comments. We all know this doesn't make sense, yet the left perseveres.
All the Best,
Tim
Great hub! I expect plenty of ass whippings when gays start telling real men they entered the army to see penis! I think there should be gay showers, bunks, tents and vehicles, ........chartruese would be a nice color to paint their stuff! haha, excellent hub!
Carol
Can you recall the last thing that Congress did to actually help solve a problem in this country?
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Well said. I can't add a thing. It's the ECONOMY, stupid! Fix that first. Please.
Great write! Another liberal ploy to shove any and everything that goes against God and country in our face!
Some where far from home, there were 6 guys laying in bunks after 12 hours in the friendly skies of south Vietnam. We were talking about the whores in Bangkok, Thailand and the weird stuff they do for G.I. dollars and a young (like we weren't) guy who joined us and was running port gunner asked if we ever saw men dressed as women, the answer was hell yes, and his quietness got big time interested pretty quick, there wasn't a guy in the hooch that didn't know by the time he shut up that he was a happy kind of guy. He'd done his job well and continued to and as a group when we caught each other alone kinda buzzed about it and wanted to know should we turn him in? I told them all to forget they ever heard it, let it go away, the guy beat the boot camp and the advanced training, and has flown into the same shit we all had, let it go! I got him off to the side and told him to keep his interest to himself as there were guys who would back shoot him over it. I told him when we got to Bangkok for R&R I'd point him in the direction he wanted to go. I remember patting him on the back as he got his orders home, but he did his job and that is all that mattered. It really is OK with me, but just because somebody is a cock sucker doesn't mean they have to brag about it, great article, 50
You said it American Romance - just another ploy!
Thanks for stopping by!
Carol
50 Caliber - thank you for your salty, yet thoughtful comment. Sharing your experience gave still another experience where soldiers served with homosexual soldiers and got along beautifully. It wasn't broke, it didn't need fixin'!
I'm thankful you shared that.
Carol
Wayne Brown Level 8 Commenter 16 months ago
As a veteran myself I whole-heartedly agree with you. This seems to be much like the marriage recognition issue we also face...there is a desire to have an open in your face acknowledgement of the fact that the person is gay. Given that fact, if the person openly acts out their gay behavior, what are commanders to do in terms of discipline. Certainly this cannot be condone. The military would not put up with a hetrosexual male hitting on a hetrosexual female who does not want his attention thus do the same rules apply or will there be outraged that their behavior has been constrained? As to the housing thing, the best possible solution if to form co-ed barracks of gay men and women and pray that it works. When I served in the military, and this was before the DADT policy, not once was I asked what my sexual preference was by anyone. At the same time, I didn't parade around the base with my tongue down my wife's throat yelling look at us, look at us, we're just your every day run of the mill hetrosexuals just opening demonstrating who we are. That's the point...hetrosexuals don't exactly demonstrate who they are. They just go about the business of living and doing their job and their sexual preferences remain a private item with them...a choice they more than perfer. I have great difficulty with the mindset that someone is going to serve in the military and be "openly" anything except what the military wants them to be...soldiers. When we forget that principle and when we allow those who want to serve to forget it, we just cashed in our chips in terms of our military cohesiveness and team work. A sad day. WB