Republicans block bill to lift military gay ban

[DerbyCat]

Originally Posted by Honu

OMG I know its a fundemental right to be a homo as I am one. This is what Im saying, we the people fund the military of this country, we pay the bill so it should be us who decides who we want dying for our freedoms.
The government has gotten so ahead of us the citizens that(and we have let them)they think they can say what is what when we pay the bills.
If we the people are loud enough about it we can change it.
The biggest problem is that joining the military is a choice and the military officials will akin that to what they think is a choice about being gay.
If a poll was taken among military people I would bet that they wouldnt give a flying frogs azz who serves.

Honu, do you want "we the people" to be able to decide if you can be an exercise rider based upon your sexual orientation? How does who you love have anything to do with how you do your job? It doesn't, it should be irrelevant. But there are still enough people who, for religious reasons, don't think gays should be able to do a lot of things... get married, adopt children, work in the military, etc. They shouldn't get to decide what you or anyone else does for a living or how you live your life. I wouldn't trust any aspect of my life to a vote - no majority should be able to say, you can't marry the person you love, you can't give a child a loving home, and you can't work with straight people just because WE don't like what you do with your personal life.
I am legally married to a woman here in California, how many DTers have had their marriage fall apart because of that fact? How many of their children have had nightmares and have to go through therapy because of my marriage? How many people that I know have had this happen to them? Not a single one. But that's the fear. We're still at least a generation removed from where being gay won't matter, until then any vote having to do with "gay rights" is no sure thing.