No Way

One of the hottest issues in the world right now is the hot political debate about if they should lift the “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” policy. For the most part this a political lines battle taking places between liberals and conservatives, the liberals wish to allow gays to openly service in the armed forces and conservatives wishing to keep the current “ Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and even ban gays from serving in the military. What is bothering me the most is that the people who are saying that we should lift the policy has either no military experience or during there whole time serving in the military they have been able to have the privileged of serving has a commissioned officer. This means that they get to reside in single rooms. Never getting the input of enlisted member is wrong because they should have the right to give there optional. These are the people who have to share roughly 300 square foot, four-man rooms. I have read many blogs from ex soldiers who have given accounts of coming back to there barracks and seeing things that made them very uncomfortable. A poll done by Military times found that up to 23% of the troops say they would not re-enlist if DADT is repealed. That a lot of members that the military would lose and you have to wonder if there would be that many homosexual that would enlist if DADT is repealed. Straight service personnel have also came out to say that they do not feel comfortable showering with homosexual and bisexuals. Another problem that you have to worry about is conservative parents and if they would allow their children into a “gay military” these people have very strong views about this subject so it would be very scary to think about what would happened if they don’t agree with a view about there military, and keep in mind that these are the kids that usually make up a large part of the military so a recruiting shortage is a major problem that we should keep in mind. We are fighting two wars right now and that is already making recruiting very difficult so what the results of having a openly gay military have on America during these trying time?

Work cited
Robinson, B.A.” The military's "Don't ask; don't tell"policy. All viewpoints explained” 2010-Jan-31 Copyright © 2000 to 2010 by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Powers, Rod “ Gays in the Military” 2010 About.com, a part of the New York Times Company