Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy

i think its so great that you found this and made it an available for everyone. i am in full support for anything involving gay rights.

The policy of the military should be the military's choice, not politicians or civilians. If you put a referendum to active service members and they all approved by a super majority that individuals should be able to openly serve, then that is the only way I would support it, otherwise, stay out of it, it is none of your business. Politics and gay rights should not be issues troubling the military when we have so many more important tasks and issues which need our effort and support.

But if "Don't ask, don't tell" is reapealed and there's a draft, how are we going to get out of military service? I certainly don't want to shoot myself in the foot and "I'm a pacifist" would probably not be accepted as a legitimate excuse.

However, I'd be completely against this if it didn't have so much utility for me.

Related: Should women also be denied things like financial aid and the opportunity for government employment if they don't register for the selective service at 18?

I've never met anyone in the military who refused to serve with openly gay people. I don't think it's the military that gives a damn, but the over-patriotic morons who make constant shallow references to 9/11 and do their best to legislate us back to the 19th century. This decision is nothing more than politics by politicians... DADT is completely disconnected from the actual military.

Oh, and something tells me that all of our military personnel would like to have back the arabic translators who were dismissed because of DADT. Because... you know... we don't really have any left.

I am the son of a Naval officer and I grew up living on navy, marine, and airforce bases around the world.  I realize that DADT is discrimanitory because of the harsh penalties when one is judged to be homosexual (which are totally outragous).  And I realize that repealing it would be beneficial to the navy, airforce, and maybe even the army.  However, it would be a grave mistake to remove the basic principals of DADT from the marines.  Not all the branches are the same; It would put hommosexuals at an unnecessary risk for abuse.

The military should be the ones who decide their own policies, especially since each branch is very different in its culture and demographic make-up.  Yet, for the protection of homosexuals, policies wthin the military that encourage people to maintain descreetness about their sexuality should not be outlawed.