Hope And Change: Obama Administration Won’t Be Touching “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” Policy

He campaigned on hope and change. To date, Americans aren’t getting a lot of either.

WASHINGTON – Don’t expect any change soon to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about gays in the military.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says both he and President Barack Obama have “a lot on our plates right now.” As Gates puts it, “let’s push that one down the road a little bit.”

Right. Because making a decision on that would require some actual leadership from the President on a tough, divisive issue. And we all know Obama favors form over substance. Pretty speeches, not a lot of meaning.
For the record, I think we should have ended “don’t ask, don’t tell” a long time ago. The military has a number of prudent regulations on the books pertaining to inappropriate romantic fraternization between military members. And given that the younger generation of troops now making up our military ranks is a lot more tolerant of gays than older generations were the argument pertaining to dissent and turmoil in the ranks is becoming less and less convincing.
Gays exist. Some of them want to serve our country in the military. Why not let ‘em do so in an open fashion so that they need not fear repurcussions for acting in a non-government-approved way in their personal lives?

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  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    Then why do we have male and female facilities in the military?

    The same reason we do in private life. Because we have different GENITALS. It’s long established custom to have separate facilities for the sexes. But gay men are still MEN. And unless they’re having sex at the moment, they’re men in a locker room same as a straight man. YOU CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE.

    But since you brought it up, a lot of men aren’t comfortable being naked in front of other men or going to the bathroom in front of other men, straight OR gay.

    No, you’re not. Not even close. The sociocultural taboos against female attractions in front of males evolved specifically because males instinctively know that what you said is iffy at best. You can say that males should control themselves and that females should be able to walk around nude, but the fact is you know damned well that would never work and the statistical likelihood of altercation resulting from a lack of control would be so high as to doom any such sexually permissive society.

    Geezus Potato, put that back in your ass where you got it.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    As a Navy vet I can tell you that queers in the USN are incompatible with service in that branch at least.

    I’ve seen a porno like that. “All Hands on Dick.” :)

  • http://www.moszer.net/ Moszer

    I’ve always thought this should be removed as well Rob. A “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Care” is more appropriate if you ask me.

    Something along the lines of “We don’t give a rip who you choose to date and have sex with, just don’t bring it up regardless” would be best I think.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    guys who prefer a fecal encrusted asshole on a hairy butt are just the same as guys who like a sweet pussy on a soft and delicious woman?

    Did you skip the session on hygiene in Health class? ICK.

    GO WASH UP! :)

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    Nothing I say will change his mind. I just find it curious. I prefer to argue issues that have some sort of endpoint. This one doesn’t for him.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    Personally I would not feel comfortable taking a shower in the company of a homo.

    Afraid you won’t “measure up”? :)

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Basing your opinions on this on the fact that you think gay sex is gross

    Pay no attention to the concerns about morale and unit cohesion.

  • pparets

    Gays frequently express their preference for a straight guy, if they can ‘get’ one.

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus Last Best Hope

    As a Navy vet I can tell you that queers in the USN are incompatible with service in that branch at least. There is no privacy onboard ship and having a shipmate with an “eye” for the straight guy is just unworkable. When the whole ship needs to go to work, it’s called an “all hands evolution”…that means all hands are at their work.. not playing butt buddy with the guy they share the space with. Guys went missing over the side when queer love went sour. Bad scene.

    don’t ask don’t tell makes sense…leave it alone.

  • Hannitized

    PP says:

    Gays frequently express their preference for a straight guy, if they can ‘get’ one.

    Like I said, there is no threat unless you are a homophobic pussy. So some guy wants to to “do me”….so what? It aint gonna happen.

    How many straight men want to bang married women? Looking and lusting after their shipmates wives is more offensive.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    You know what they tell me about gays in the military?

    Nobody really cares any more.

    Maybe you’re right or maybe that’s just what your cousins think.

    I don’t see a problem with mentioning you’re gay, as long as you aren’t coming on to them in the shower.

    I don’t think they barrack men and women who are in the service in the same rooms.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    Most straight men of the new era appreciate gay men as friends. Despite the preference difference, we’re still men. As an old boss once said to me, “What do men and womene hve in common? They like to spend time with men.” I have very close friendships with straight men who find me easier to open up to and confide in than their straight friends.

    We can “turn it off” with straight comrades and co-workers just as you straight men turn it off when around females you know you shouldn’t be hitting on. We’re above animal behavior.

  • Hannitized

    Sweet-tater says:

    Humans would have gone extinct long ago in their genetic evolutionary history had they been all as aggressive as males or as passive as females.

    And this whole time I thought it was the male instinct to mate that helped the human race survive over our entire history on earth.

    I guess I better watch more science television after all, and return that college education.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    My boyfriend and I had dinner tonight and watched The Amazing Race on TV. Afterward, I read the paper while he did his laundry.

    OH MY GOD! Look at the threat we pose to normal people everywhere!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    It’s an ugly truth and that’s what riles you.

    Riled? I view you as a curious anachronism, that’s all. It’s never been important to me that people like you accept homosexuals.

    I look back over my short life and see great strides of acceptance and openness for homosexuals and see your side increasingly marginalized. it’s you who should be riled.

    You’re losing. Badly.

  • Rezistik

    Hannitized casually ignores the huge number of homosexual pedophiles now in prison for going after heterosexual boys.

    The important part is the pedophile part…there are larger amounts of heterosexual rapists and pedophiles in jails then there are homosexuals, and it doesn’t prove anything.

    People do live above animal instincts and if they don’t it won’t matter whether they’re straight or gay.

  • djer

    How is it any different with men and women and morale and unit cohesion than homosexual men and women. I see no difference.

    Ponyman is just afraid.

  • Rezistik

    guys who prefer a fecal encrusted asshole on a hairy butt are just the same as guys who like a sweet pussy on a soft and delicious woman?

    Did you skip the session on hygiene in Health class? ICK.

    GO WASH UP! smile

    Gotta agree on that one…

  • robert108

    I see no difference.

    We already know you have that problem, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a difference; just that you aren’t smart enough to recognize it.

    Rob: Don’t forget that the present policy was Clinton’s weasely way of appeasing the homos; the previous policy was “no gays in the military”. We have had problems with this policy, along with women in combat positions(another legacy of lefties using the armed forces for social engineering) ever since.

    Let’s solve the problem at the root. No one has the “right” to be in the military. We should build the best military, not the politically correct one.
    It’s just the leftie way to undermine our national defense capabilities.

  • docdave

    A “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Care” is more appropriate if you ask me.

    Unfortunately homos tend to be predatory always look for new ‘partners’. The enlisted men of a military live in close proximity which could cause some problems. Personally I would not feel comfortable taking a shower in the company of a homo. Who knows what could happen if I dropped the soap and bent over to pick it up.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    I’m curious, what happened to you that makes you so anti-gay?

  • docdave

    Gay people aren’t any different than heterosexuals…you’re a fool in believing gay people are any more predatory than straight people.

    Can’t you read? I didn’t say that they were MORE predatory. As far as not being any different that heteros, that’s a crock too. Homo men go after men, hetero men go after women. As a man, I’ve never been bothered by heteros but I have been harassed by homos several times the last being of all places a religious retreat center.

  • robert108

    Women have had to put up with this for centuries.

    I guess the natural biological attraction between men and women(you know, that thing that perpetuates the human race?) is beyond your understanding. That tells us a lot about you.

  • Hannitized

    Homo men go after men,

    Homo men go for homo men the same way straight men go for women.

    Nothing is a threat if you aren’t a homophobic pussy.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    How is it any different with men and women and morale and unit cohesion than homosexual men and women. I see no difference.

    Do they house men and women together in the military?

    I didn’t think so.

  • Rezistik

    Unfortunately homos tend to be predatory always look for new ‘partners’. The enlisted men of a military live in close proximity which could cause some problems. Personally I would not feel comfortable taking a shower in the company of a homo. Who knows what could happen if I dropped the soap and bent over to pick it up.

    Really?

    Gay people aren’t any different than heterosexuals…you’re a fool in believing gay people are any more predatory than straight people.

  • robert108

    Gay people aren’t any different than heterosexuals…

    Since homos don’t reproduce themselves, they have to recruit; furthermore, their “lifestyle” is an evolutionary disadvantage, so they must lie about what they do, to sell it to those who they identify as vulnerable to their perversion.
    They’re different, alright.

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus Last Best Hope

    the problem of agressive dykes onboard is a huge problem for hetro women sailors as well

    openingly being queer in your home town is up to you…openly being queer in the Navy is an ongoing problem and a huge headache for CO’s who have to deal with political PC orders from those who have never served.

    as far as men looking at women? why not rage against the sunrise djer?

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Then house all the military together.

    I’m sure that we won’t have any problems at all.

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus Last Best Hope

    really? guys who prefer a fecal encrusted asshole on a hairy butt are just the same as guys who like a sweet pussy on a soft and delicious woman?

    what universe are you from Rez?

  • lastofthepatriots

    Sorry guys, no matter what you say – being “gay” is NOT normal. It is a personal lifestyle choice which should not be forced onto the mainstream hetro environment. It should stay in the seedy darkness and under the rocks from where it came.

    I’m not anti-Gay…just Pro-Hetro, I’d rather my kids be brought up with books at school that describe a real family unit you know, mother and father…not two fathers or two mothers. I also do not want the US military have to be faced with pressures within their own units as well as worry about the enemy.

    And I am sure I will will get a response from some wise-ass liberal trying to be a goodie-goodie for the gay movement or in even someone who is gay… I repeat – being GAY is NOT Normal if it was, there would be a provision for such unions to procreate and extend the human race.

    If anything, it will run into extinction at some point…hopefully.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    You homosexuals can protest the truth and the facts all you want. It doesn’t make homosexuality any more sane, or less dangerous to those who engage in it, or the children who are victimized by it any less victimized.

    The numbers of diseases, both mental and venereal, are out there. The rate of sexual victimization of children is out there as well. Stamp your feet, froth at the mouth or try to hit me with your purses and it doesn’t change the truth.

    It’s an ugly truth and that’s what riles you. You know at bottom that you are wrong and someone pointing it out to you and particularly pointing it out to others, threatens your self-image and sends you into a rage.

    Tough.

    You have been reduced to asking — in effect — why I am so normal. Better to ask yourselves, what makes you so abnormal?

    What has happened in your life to make you a deviant?

    Frankly I don’t want to hear how you were raped by a priest or a boyscout leader or your drunk Mexican uncle at the tender age of nine, but that’s how a lot of homosexuals got their start.

    If you yourself are not homosexual, why on Earth would anyone take it upon themselves to defend a dangerous and deviant practice? Why would you place yourself in the same camp as NAMBLA, because that is exactly what you are doing.

    The effort to abolish “age of consent” laws has been a long-time goal of homosexual activists. The 1972 Gay Rights Platform, for example, called for the abolition of all laws prohibiting sex with children. The platform demands: “Repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent.”

    And

    It’s Not Gay presents a story that few have heard, allowing former homosexuals the opportunity to tell their own story in their own words. Along with medical and mental health experts, these individuals express a clear warning that the sanitized version of homosexuality being presented to students is not the whole truth.

    Uncompromising, yet compassionate, It’s Not Gay is a fair and balanced approach to this challenging subject.

    https://store.a fa .net/ pc-42-5- its-not- gay-dvd .aspx

  • pparets

    Hahahahahahaha!

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    To be fair to the Obama administration, in this policy he’s following the Clinton policy rather than the Bush policy.

  • Hannitized

    Best line all night:

    …zig-zag the coked up, central floridian, muscle bound homosexual.

  • Houston

    I just view it as one more stressor in an already stressful situation. I agree don’t ask don’t tell seems to be the best way to handle things right now.

    Personally I wish a lot of people (straight and homosexual) would keep the drama in their lives to themselves.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Then why do we have male and female facilities in the military?

    They should be all together.

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus Last Best Hope

    the “nobody cares” argument is false…but you seem very sure it’s all good. Hold that thought if it’s a comfort.

    openly queer onboard ship is bad from every operational standpoint…talk to the Officers and Senior Petty Officers who must command these young men and women.

  • robert108

    We’re talking about someone not getting canned if they happen to mention to another soldier that they’ve got a boyfriend instead of a girlfriend waiting at home.

    If that were really all there was to it, there would be no problem, Rob. You know that’s not what this is about.

    BTW, if we have to have homos in our national defense forces, put the homo guys with the normal women, and the homo girls with the normal men.

  • lastofthepatriots

    For Sparkie and Dino…hey, please stop trying to be fake intellectuals and dissecting the arguments from those of us who are let’s just say not with you on this….

    There are jut two opposing opinions on this – those who are comfortable with people who choose to live the GAY lifestyle and those who are not.

    It would be just that, and Gay people could go about their lifestyle within their own group of like-minded people, and the rest of us could get along with our lives.

    It is just the meddling minority of people in the Gay and liberal left communities who feel that it the right of those in the “Gay” camp should impose their lifestyle into the more mainstream hetro life and this is where the clashes take place.

    Gay people get brainwashed into taking on this fight and will eventually lose even the peaceful lifestyle that they had once enjoyed in secret.

    Why is it that you have to be OUT and shout your gay-ness to the rest of the world? Here’s the truth…IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU ARE GAY…so long as you keep it contained to yourselves and within your community; and not try an impose it on the rest of us!

    As Move_Zig states “You homosexuals can protest the truth and the facts all you want.” At the end of the day, it does not make it mainstream or normal and it will never be until one man having sexual intercourse with another increases the population (without artificial aids or science…).

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    there are already plenty of gays in the military.

    So there’s no need to change the policy then.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    Homosexuals are very much more sexually aggressive than normal people

    Well, you’re just a whack job who has a definite problem with queers. You’re like an old southern man sitting on the porch in a rocker talking about how the “nigras” are less human than whites. A relic. A has-been. A increasingly marginalized fringe element adhering to myth and lies to support your warped, Quixotic crusade against the gays.

    All men are sexually predatory and aggressive if they have testicles.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Homosexuals are very much more sexually aggressive than normal people. Even though they comprise perhaps 3 percent of the population, they commit about one third of sexual assaults against children. Thus their aggressive tendency is an order of magnitude over the general population.

    Abel’s data of 150.2 boys abused per male homosexual offender finds no equal (yet) in heterosexual violations of 19.8 girls

    Not only that, they are extremely sexually promiscuous:

    In a 6-month long daily sexual diary, gay men were averaging somewhere around 110 different sex partners per year. Source: Corey, L. and Holmes, K.K., ” Sexual transmission of Hepatitis A in homosexual men,” New England Journal of Medicine, 1980; Vol. 302, pp. 435-38.

    Considering the number of dangerous and deadly diseases that they bear, they really are vectors of contagion.

    Not only that, they are sexually aggressive and violent.

    Let’s look at “gay” relationships in more detail, beyond what you will read in the popular media. Compared to heterosexual men, “gay” men report a shorter level of duration in their longest relationship. Fewer heterosexual men have “open” (when either one or both partners are sexually non-exclusive) relationships compared to their “gay” counterparts. Ultimately, “gays” have fewer monogamous relationships. Their partners’ sexual exclusivity is not an important factor in their relationships.

    ….

    Domestic violence

    For lesbians, domestic violence will be the highlight within the marriage. An already overburdened police force dealing with domestic violence will get more than they can handle.

    Aggressive behaviour is legendary in homosexuality.xi

    Earlier research has shown a correlation between violence and homosexuality.xii It has estimated that same-sex relational battering occurs in as many as one in three relationships. Lesbians are especially violent in their relationships. In a sample of 279 female college students, lesbians were generally more criminal and violent compared to heterosexual females.xiii

    In a study of lesbian victims, it was found that physical violence, motional abuse, and acts of intimidation do occur with sufficient frequency within lesbian relationships. One psychotherapist personally found lesbians to be terrorized in their relationships. Patterns of violent incidents were commonplace in the lesbian relationship. It was also found that the battered lesbian reports that the emotional abuse and consequent diminishment of her sense of self is ultimately more damaging than her physical injuries.xiv

    One survey of over 100 self-identified lesbians found that 9 out of 10 of them reported either having observed or having been the recipient of some form of aggression, whether physical, verbal, or sexual, in their families of origin. As adults, nearly three-quarters of these women reported experiencing aggressive acts, and over half reported their past relationships as “aggressive.” Approximately one-third of those reported the aggression as self-defensive measures, one-third as mutual aggression, and another one-third as both mutual and self- defensive.xv

  • pparets

    Hannitized casually ignores the huge number of homosexual pedophiles now in prison for going after heterosexual boys.

  • Rezistik

    Gotta agree with Rob big time here. Basing your opinions on this on the fact that you think gay sex is gross isn’t a mature way to deal with things.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    Gays frequently express their preference for a straight guy, if they can ‘get’ one.

    If he has sex with me he’s no longer straight. And it’s often a lot more trouble than it’s worth.

  • Buzz

    We also have the freedom to not associate with anyone with whom we don’t want to associate.

    And yet you keep talking, be gone noob.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Sorry guys, I am not coked up. I prefer Pepsi or cold green tea.

    Sheez.

    Oh yeah. This just in from your side of the fence:

    Sex offender says he will continue to molest children; is released anyway

    (Blogger’s comment) Michael McGill is a sick individual. He’s been convicted of repeated sexual assaults against children, and has written letters begging to stay in prison so that he won’t harm anyone again. Yet, he’s still going to be released?

    A convicted sex offender due to be released Saturday from prison after serving 11 months warned in letters that if set free, he would reoffend, even against children. In the letters, Michael McGill begged authorities to keep him locked up for life.

    “Please throw the book at me … I’m harmful to others I should be locked up for life,” he wrote in block letters that resemble a child’s writing. “I will sexual abuse men. Do this for the safe (sic) of others then I be able not to hurt anyone else. Judge I’m begging you to put me away.”

    In another place he wrote that he had told his two 7-year-old male victims, “I will do more sex crimes with boys 4 to 14. I will molest with boys 15 to 18.

    Neither the Polk County attorney’s office, which prosecuted McGill and distributed his letters to other agencies, nor the Iowa Board of Parole, nor the attorney general’s office, which handles civil commitments for sexually violent predators, says it can do anything to prevent McGill’s release.

    McGill will at least initially be housed at the community-based Fort Des Moines Correctional Facility, which he won’t be allowed to leave without an officer’s escort. He is supposed to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet at all times and be under maximum supervision for 10 years. But is that enough?

    His letters, spanning 22 pages, were obtained Thursday by The Des Moines Register. It’s unclear whether he was addressing anyone in particular. They were written at some point after his latest arrest, in April 2008. Assistant Polk County Attorney Jeff Noble got them June 13, 2008, and sent them days later to officials at the Des Moines Police Department, the Iowa Board of Parole and the Iowa Department of Correctional Services. McGill, 50, wrote that his sexual offenses date to 1976 and that there were 15 victims.

    Silly faggots… Dicks are for chicks.

  • sayanything-5371

    When I was in the Coast Guard we had an incident on the Cutter I was on. It was a large Cutter with a crew of 175 men. It seems the Captains cook/steward was caught in an act with one of the other cooks late at night in their birthing area.

    Word spread around the ship like wildfire. We were 200 miles out of the nearest port as we were on patrol in Alaska waters. The ship headed in and those 2 guys were kept incognito the whole time.

    I think the Captain was afraid he might get cream of sum yung guy on his pork chops, because he couldn’t get them off the ship fast enough.

  • sayanything-5371

    Gotta agree on that one…

    LOL!!!!!!!!

  • pparets

    Well said, 108…

    Let’s solve the problem at the root. No one has the “right” to be in the military. We should build the best military, not the politically correct one.

  • http://unreligiousright.blogspot.com/ UNRR

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  • Hannitized

    Pedophiles, both straight and gay “go after” children PP. Your point is invalid.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    So Rez, why have any segregated living/showering quarters at all?

    Put all of ‘em together, men, women, gays, lesbians.

    Nothing will happen.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Come-on PP, I find that hard to believe. Next thing you’ll be telling me is that some guys want to have sex with female virgins.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Bottom line, homosexuality is a disease of the mind.

    It is sexual deviancy and perversion.

    It is also unsafe. Homosexuals comprise an inordinate danger to themselves and to others, both through the innate danger of their acts (leading to a shortened life span by some 20 years — how odd, that Leftards concern themselves about the health of smokers, but turn a blind eye to the self-imposed health risks imposed by the anal hijinks of homosexuals) , the other psychoses that accompany homosexuality, and the danger they pose to children and to the general population by the introduction of a deadly and incurable disease of AIDs/ HIV.

    That homosexuality is tolerated makes no sense when taking into consideration the State’s duties under the Police Power to ensure the health, safety, welfare and morals of society. For the State to impose a deviancy which presents a clear and present danger to society is a total abrogation of the purpose that the State has been formed.

    In so doing, now the State constitutes a hazard to society, not its protector.

    Homosexuals are over-represented in many samples of eating disordered men. While the proportion of male homosexuals in the general population cross-culturally is estimated to be 3%-5% (Whitman, 1983), samples of eating-disordered men are commonly twice as high or greater (Fichter & Daser, 1987).
    # Several authors have noted that homosexual conflict preceded the onset of an eating disorder in up to 50% of male patients (Scott, 1986; Dally, 1969; Crisp, 1967).
    # Conflict over gender identity or over sexual orientation may precipitate the development of an eating disorder in many males (Crisp, 1983). It may be that by reducing their sexual drive through starvation, patients can temp orarily resolve their sexual conflicts (Crisp, 1970).

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    We can “turn it off” with straight comrades and co-workers just as you straight men turn it off when around females you know you shouldn’t be hitting on.

    But we don’t room with women that we aren’t involved with.

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus Last Best Hope

    it’s a big problem IN REALITY…only on paper it does it seem workable

    do some time in the real Navy and get back to me on the “fairness” thing.

  • djer

    Hey, LBH, how is that any different than men “eyeing” women on ships? Geesh you guys are so scared of other men. Women have had to put up with this for centuries.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    There’s plenty of reason to change the policy.

    I haven’t been in the military. I guess I’d defer to people that know what’s going on.

    However, I fail to see any need to use the military for social experimentation in this case.

  • http://www.moszer.net/ Moszer

    You know what they tell me about gays in the military? Nobody really cares any more.

    This is what I’ve been hearing as well, from friends who were in Iraq in both the guard and reserve as well as friends in the Navy aboard carriers. Their commanding officers know about it but pretend they don’t “officially” know.

    I’m good friends with an officer in the reserves who has told me he would not report someone under his command unless he absolutely had to.

    Perhaps for the most part it’s all but officialy gone by now anyway.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    he would not report someone under his command unless he absolutely had to.

    Doesn’t that help keep it in control?

  • robert108

    Most straight men of the new era appreciate gay men as friends.

    Any facts to back up your claim, lying little dinostem? This thread is about the homo threat to our national security through disrupting our armed forces, not our freedom of association in civilian life. We also have the freedom to not associate with anyone with whom we don’t want to associate.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    I’ve always thought this should be removed as well Rob. A “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Care” is more appropriate if you ask me.

    I’m with Moszer. And I think those of you who are basing your opposition to gays in the military on the fact that you think gay sex is “icky” need to grow up a little bit.

    Besides, there are already plenty of gays in the military. Deal with it.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    Hannah:

    Nothing is a threat if you aren’t a homophobic pussy.

    Not true.

    Males and females are entirely different when it comes to sexuality and mating. Males are more sexually aggressive and simplistic in seeking and accomplishing the act. Females are more sexually passive, complicated, and slower to consummate the act. There are numerous biological and sociological reasons for this and well documented. You might want to read them some day or at least watch more science television.

    Humans would have gone extinct long ago in their genetic evolutionary history had they been all as aggressive as males or as passive as females. At the passive female extreme, hardly anyone gets around to mating, waiting constantly for one to be marginally less passive and more aggressive, and reproduction rates would have been so low as to allow environmental retarding factors to wipe out the species. at the aggressive male extreme, sexually transmitted diseases and internecine fighting over emotional upset would have doomed humanity as mortality would have overridden higher reproduction rates easily.

    Homosexual males are still males. Still aggressive. Despite the aggressive-passive dynamic, both of the pair are aggressors. With little restraint against the sexual act, and a great desire for it, and a society willing to condone it, anyone with half a day’s reading of Time magazine during the AIDS fiasco of the 80s can see where that goes.

    There’s a reason that homosexual females are largely overlooked and homosexual males condemned in human societies throughout history with few exceptions. Their fellow heterosexual straight males and females both know instinctively that unchecked male homosexuality is a threat to the survival of the extended familial/tribal structure.

    Dino:

    We can “turn it off” with straight comrades and co-workers just as you straight men turn it off when around females you know you shouldn’t be hitting on. We’re above animal behavior.

    No, you’re not. Not even close. The sociocultural taboos against female attractions in front of males evolved specifically because males instinctively know that what you said is iffy at best. You can say that males should control themselves and that females should be able to walk around nude, but the fact is you know damned well that would never work and the statistical likelihood of altercation resulting from a lack of control would be so high as to doom any such sexually permissive society.

    It’s a matter of human nature, averages, and current prevailing cultural conditions.

    The best you can hope for at this stage of human evolution is a quiet ceasefire. Keep your sexuality to yourself behind closed doors. Keep your mouth shut and your crotch and sex life out of other peoples’ faces. Instead, the homosexual males have become suicidally militant seeking to arouse the anger of the far greater majority which knows the ultimate outcome of allowing them unrestrained liberty. They see it already with gay pride parades of men in leather g-strings tonguing the asses of other men in front of their children, the STD rates among gays, the self-righteous obtrusiveness of gays…

    Why don’t you just go slather yourselves in BBQ sauce and leap into a pen of trained fighting pit bulls while screaming gibberish? It would be the same thing but sooooo much quicker.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    I think it’s rather stupid to assume that the best military, from a professional and tactical standpoint, is one without gays in it.

    Do you have some evidence to back that up? Do I need to mention, say, Alexander the Great? The Spartans? And any number of other warriors of the past with homosexual tendencies?

    Do they house men and women together in the military?

    I didn’t think so.

    In combat zones I think the quarters tend to get pretty tight. But even so, why would we assume that homosexual men wouldn’t be able to control themselves?

    I’m sure anyone who has used a public gym has probably been in the shower room with a gay guy at one point.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    However, I fail to see any need to use the military for social experimentation in this case.

    What social experimentation? We’re talking about someone not getting canned if they happen to mention to another soldier that they’ve got a boyfriend instead of a girlfriend waiting at home.

    I’m sure there are already policies in the military about being an advocate for certain social or political causes while in uniform. Keep enforcing those, but let’s quit acting like a bunch of children.

    do some time in the real Navy and get back to me on the “fairness” thing.

    I’ve got two cousins in the military right now, one on a carrier in the Indian Ocean (last I heard). You know what they tell me about gays in the military?

    Nobody really cares any more. So speak for yourself, Last. Don’t speak for anyone else.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    MoveZig

    Homosexuals are very much more sexually aggressive than normal people. Even though they comprise perhaps 3 percent of the population, they commit about one third of sexual assaults against children. Thus their aggressive tendency is an order of magnitude over the general population.

    Let’s consider your argument. I runs something like this.
    Premise 1: Homosexuals comprise 3% of the population.
    Premise 2: Homosexuals commit approx 33% of the sexual assaults against children.
    Conclusion: Homosexuals’ agressive tendency is significantly higher than that of heterosexuals, bisexuals, etc.

    First, you equivocate from first saying ‘sexual aggression’ to later general ‘aggression’. Second, if your statistics are true, there is much more to agression and even to sexual agression than merely sexually assaulting children. What if sexual assaults on children only comprise a small fraction of all sexual assaults? Your conclusion is not warranted, given your premises.

    Not only is your argument logically invalid, its probably also unsound. I doubt that your premises are even true, given you are only citing anti-homosexual websites. Provide some stats from a website that is not a Mickey-Mouse anti-homo site and maybe we can grant that your stats are credible. The Tim Daily fellow who authored that piece has a PhD in religion – not criminology, sociology, or any other science remotely related to characterizing these issues. He’s a missionary, a propagandist — that is all.

    To continue with the problems… look at this quote

    Abel’s data of 150.2 boys abused per male homosexual offender finds no equal (yet) in heterosexual violations of 19.8 girls

    The violations are homosexual or the violators are? A lot of the people who are responsible for the violations may not be included in the 3% you site. My bet is that they are closet homosexuals who lie on those sorts of questionnaires, probably even have wives… until they are caught molesting little boys, or whatever. So you data is all out of whack. We assume sexuality of the culprit based on the crime when they could be bisexuals or DL homosexuals. We assume these men come from the 3% of the population who volunteer their sexual orientation truthfully on demographic surveys.

    Screw you head back on and try again. You have jack shit here, baiter.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    I don’t see a problem with mentioning you’re gay, as long as you aren’t coming on to them in the shower.

    The military sees a problem with mentioning it. Thus “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

    That’s the problem I have. We can get rid of “don’t ask don’t tell” and still have a policy against unwanted romantic advances (or just plain old romantic fraternization among the rank and file in general).

    It’s not like we’re going to drop the policy, and then witness gay orgies in the barracks.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    Move_zig
    you are wrong, multiply. still.

    from an adaptive point of view… consider the beaver. Beaver’s slap their tales when danger is near. They need not slap their tales only when danger is near… a 10% accuracy rate would still keep them safe if they took cover 90% of the time for no reason. a trait can be adaptive without being 100%, as you can see. the beaver survives.

    now let’s run the argument with homosexuality. you claim that it is non-adaptive, but we don’t need all the sex that occurs to be heterosexual for humans to thrive, as one can see from the beaver analogy. if 3% of the population is homosexuals, that doesn’t bespeak any unnatural-ness or any non-adaptiveness. i hope you can appreciate this. also, you don’t believe in evolution do you? why run these arguments? grasping at whatever you can get ahold of?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    also, you seem to be an essentialist about sexuality. the only problem is that one counterexample ruins arguments from essentialism. essentialism would require that heterosexuality is an essential property of ‘maleness’. if we have counterexamples, it fails to be an essential property and the essentialist arguments go down the tubes.

    trust me, i am ready to argue with you all you want about this. i won’t resort to bullshit arguments and cite homophobe religious men when talking science. i will win, you are wrong. bring it on, bitch.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    what happened to you that makes you so anti-gay?

    he is a big military type. he spent years working out and having buttsex in the service. seriously, where do you more self-hating homos than in the military?

    also, DIno — feel free to take these arguments apart. your response sucked and i cant do all the work here. your calm evening with your beau sounds quite harmless, but it doesnt serve to dispell the bullshit slander oozing from zig-zag the coked up, central floridian, muscle bound homosexual. those florida homosexuals are so weird, with all the steroids and shit – WTF?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    floating an argument from statistics with one, emotional example?

    oh.

    carry on.

    silly dumbass, non-knee-jerk positions on the issues are for adults.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    dino
    its important to neuter those official-looking comments with all the links he leaves. its not him you need to worry about, its all the poor jakes who stumble through and think he’s arguing on solid logic with solid sources. its all just bullshit from insecure churchmen who probably molest little boys themselves and, as a externalization of their self-hatred, crusade against it.

    the funny thing is that a lot of the socio-biology that this stuff is tacitly couched in (homosexuality is unnatural, bad, etc) is totally bunk… not to mention that it draws on evolutionary theory, which most of these guys don’t even believe in. don’t trust old scientists… and even moreso… don’t trust old non-scientists… when it comes to scientific claims. zig isn’t making a scientific claim, in the end, but he masquerades as such.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    So there’s no need to change the policy then.

    I think it’s more than a little unfair that some soldiers can have pictures of their loved ones in their lockers or what have you, but not others.

    There’s some that can speak openly about their home lives, and others that can’t.

    There’s plenty of reason to change the policy.

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