the main reason i want DADT to be repealed is so that my wife and her children can receive benefits jus lyke the wives an husbands of my heterosexual counterparts. i kno that wont happen right away..but eventuallii i see where our rights can go. homosexuals have been proud, fightin, courageous, stedfast members of the military since its inception..gives the right to serve without the fear of an unjust discharge. i dont want to throw my sexuality in the faces of heterosexuals i jus want to be able to serve without the fear that i can be discharge simplii for who i love. Pres. Obama needs to protect the rights of all americans not jus the majority.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
DADT Amended NOT Repealed
Ok so i been in the navy for almost a year and Obama has been in office for two..yet and still he has not repealed the Dont Ask Dont Tell policy. Pres. Obama got a lot of votes from the gay community and i for one havin started my process of joinin the navy and swearin in jus 15 days after he was voted into office was happii to hear that he was verii interested in doin away wit DADT..and now havin been in the navy all this tyme i reallii am started to wonder if he is goin to make good on his word. i kno there are a tons of ppl fightin to keep DADT on the books sayin that the entire infrastructure of the military would fall apart if homosexuals could serve openlii..but guess wat..we usualii do in alot of branches.
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ReplyDeleteI am familiar with DADT, and I know I need to do more research on it before I post any sure comment about it here, but I have heard a few arguments from various standpoint..
I always thought that the military was about half "gay" or bisexual anyway. I know that a good amount of military wives turn to other women when their husbands are away anyway, lol! But that's a different story all together lol.
But I think the issue is that the big, pink elephant that is in the room (the "Rainbow Community") would have to be actually realized and dealt with head on. Many people would just rater not deal with it; not think about it. It's kinda like how a smoker doesn't want to be reminded of the fact that they are literally killing themselves with every puff. They would rather just continue their lives as normal.
I think that even though the military is changing that it is still largely Republican and set it it's traditions, even though I am sure those who hold the traditions are DL anyway. HA! They are worried the moral would go way down, I am sure. Like you can be in close quarters in a war zone all day and fight for your fellow shipmate or battle, but as soon as that shipmate or battle "comes out", they could be looked at or treated differently. Or harassed and the military doesn't want to deal with homosexual harassment on top of all the other issues they are having. People are ignorant like that. We would/could fall apart at the seams and if we don't have unity from within, and then how can we fight? The "enemy"(whoever that is) would win. I'm not saying that DADT should stay, I'm just saying that it would take a VERY long time to train military personnel on how to accept that person for their personal lifestyles. And with two wars going on and our military being stretched all over the place, DADT will be pushed back in line..
But as far as people getting kicked out for being gay or bisexual?? I don't know how I feel about all that. I think that's a bit harsh when there is much worse going on in the military..
But I love and voted for Obama myself, but he is not working alone. That's just not how our government works. He has people in his ear all all over the place and sometimes he has to be affected by that. We got health care, but DADT may be just too much for America right now. I know, we are hypocrites;( It's not his doing, it is America's and the people in his camp.
Sorry for the long post lol.
~*Sailor Taylor*