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Originally Posted by DerbyCat
Of course I don't think you're simple but I do think you're missing my point. I don't think this is an issue that can be trusted to a vote of "we the people" - if it was up to the majority, WE wouldn't be allowed to get married (as is the case here in California and many other states), we wouldn't be allowed to adopt children (Florida), or work in certain jobs (it wasn't that long ago that it was put up for a vote whether or not gays could be teachers). Just because there is a policy, that doesn't mean it should be blindly followed - actually, the military is the perfect place for this rule to be eliminated, the brass tells the troops to leave the gays alone and they have to follow the order - it's that easy!  |
Ok I get your point, but "we the people" seem and I may be wrong, to care less about people serving in the military than they do about "US" comprimising the sanctity of their marriage. They want to hold the name of "marriage" as something unto themselves for whatever absurd reasons.
I feel that if the issue of gays in the military were put to a vote before the whole population of this country that no one would wish to bar them. My "brother in law" who is in the Air Force says that he doesnt know of any one in his unit or anyone that he hangs with who gives a crap about gays being in the military. So maybe Im giving the American people to much credit but I just dont think a large number of Americans care who you sleep with, all the while be willing to die for them.
Politicians use this platform as leverage and will continue to do so as long as we let them.