poll shows 79 percent of Americans favor allowing gays to serve openly
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The will of the people is no longer a primary concern of our elected "representatives." The will of the people is only something to be manipulated and diverted for the political empowerment of an elite few.

As a gay man Don't Ask/Don't Tell has ceased to be a mission critical issue for me because of what the military has become under George W. Thank God the current enlisted gays have a way to get the hell out of the nightmare that is the Bush's military if they want. Until this situation changes, I'd favor keeping DADT in place as hard as it is to say it.

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should think twice about risking their lives to defend people who are bent on keeping them as second-class citizens.

Let the beer-belly & buttcrack crowd along with the intolerant religious zealots fight Cheney & Bush's imperial wars.

Acceptance for all; to hell with DADT.

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What will be the only remaining way out of the military? Develop a drug addiction? Become massively obese? Commit some crimes?

At least DADT allows people to get out honorably.

Also, once gays are allowed to serve that is a universal thing. If the draft starts up (and it will, eventually, maybe not for Iraq - but some day) there will be thousands of gays forced to fight and die because an incredibly small minority of gays WANTED to fight and die.

Doesn't seem like something to celebrate to me.

May as well make women eligible for front line combat duty and the draft. I wonder how well that would REALLY play with women. It's easy to talk tough sitting in front of your computer at your college in New Hampshire but let's see how you feel when young Americans are dying at a rate of 500 a day in some meatgrinder and, guess what honey, it's your turn to go off and fight for your country!

Don't want to? We'll throw you in prison until the war is over.

How about we do away with the draft/selective service system before we start expanding the draftable population. Hmm?

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Google in Capt. Josh Gibbs U.S.M.C. who wrote a rebuttal to Gen. P.Pace comment re gays in military. It was a most intelligent article and was posted in the Marine Corp Times. For this he was almost court martialed, but instead was posted as punishment.

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nothing more noble than that. If they had any egalitarian instincts, they wouldn't have set up DADT in the first place. Sex and religion are personal matters.

Further, any true egalitarian wouldn't have supported violently invading and occupying another country on the mere chance that some good (besides oil and contracts) might come of it.

Draft the warmongers in Congress and the administration. Every last one of them.

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that qualified homosexuals should be allowed t serve i the miltary. The issue is a general one about sexual arrassment in the military. Homosexuals and "straights" should be under the same rules and be prosecuted if sexual arrassmanet occurs.

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As a gay man, and a liberal, I think that the current policy should stand. I can think of no better way for the anti-gay right wing to accomplish their goal of finding a "final solution" to the homosexual "problem" than to draft us all & march us to our deaths in the service of one of Bush's Imperialistic wars of conquest. Let the right-wing hypocrites who are the main cheerleaders of the war in Iraq go & fight & die in their own wars and leave us gays out of it!

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It does seem strange logic to claim acceptance of gays in the military at a time when our military is stretched in defense of a foreign policy that has been so reckless and produced such catastrophic results, that gays being allowed openly in the military could be much of a victory.

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This is what's holding gay men & women down. These are the minds that are meddling in the civil rights of men & women who don't subscribe to their mumbo-jumbo:

read here

They have no problem with gay men & women risking their lives to defend their liberties, but at the end of the day they treat them with contempt.
In a way, I'm glad that Joel Osteen and his klan are fleecing them.

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