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Originally Posted by theking
...and the Military has been completed. According to the Secretary of Defense 70 percent of troops overall said repealing the law would have positive, mixed or no effects...but those that serve in Combat Arms were for the most part opposed. Combat Arms/the fighters compose about 10% of the Military.
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I read that as 30% of troops overall believe that repealing DADT would have a negative effect and some portion of that 70 percent believes it would have mixed effects or no effect at all. That is seriously the worst wording of poll results I have ever seen. What if mixed effects was 15% and no effect was 25%? All of a sudden, positive and negative effects are tied at 30%, but that line makes it sound like positive is overwhelming majority at 70%. Keep in mind what political correctness beats into everyone's heads, and some of those answers may not even be accurate...no one wants to be labeled a bigot.
Truth be told, the kind of young men that the military is mostly comprised of are extremely immature for the most part, and the last place they're going to learn how to maturely comingle with gay men is from military commanders who likely grew up in an even more prejudiced military background. We're not at the point yet where we can take the next step. Just like slavery needed to step down to segregation first and stay there for a while before the country was ready for full equality, the military needs to be ready for no DADT first before they can consider doing away with it. I am someone with a gay sibling whom I love to death and this is not speaking from any sort of prejudice, but from concern for people like her who would like to get into the military and be SAFE. Right now they would simply be safer if no one knew their orientation than if they openly served, simple as that.
Hell, keep in mind that OUTSIDE of that specialized sector of population, even looking at a supposedly progressive state like California, gay people can't get the full equality they're seeking. That should say something.