Reply #8: Why [View All]

[gaspee]

Are you even here? Why are you in the LGBT forum and why are you here at DU - every single one of your posts that I have come across threads in which I happen to be in (meaning I am not looking for you, you just show up) has been full of less than Democratic (big D) ideals.

Are you a former republican moderate who decided the republican party is no longer for him? I'm asking out of curiosity, not malice.

And to answer your question, if we never went anywhere we might be not wanted or were *really* not wanted, we wouldn't exist at all. And we're not even as close to sensitive as you seem to think we are. I wonder why other first-class military organizations around the world have openly serving gay members without issues. I guess their military members understand professionalism and solidarity better than ours do.

Women have a shitty time in the military (due to the extremely bad behavior of their so-called comrades in arms) but they still enlist because they want to serve their country or they want to avail themselves of the same opportunities men get. Are you saying our male soldiers are going to rape our gay soldiers? Because that's what they're doing to their own sisters-in-arms - what could possibly be worse than that? A couple of gay jokes? Seriously?

I don't know why so many people have such a low opinion of our soldiers (well, I know why I do - it's mostly how women soldiers are treated.)