I am of 2 minds. I am not opposed to gays serving and openly. In the normal day to day I could care less. But this isn’t the normal day to day.
Imho the way things work now a days the do gooders, who think they are helping, or those that feel its their mission to transform everything they can lay their hands on will cause way more disruption ( and distortion) than any gay person serving would. IF left entirely to the service to mange absent any outside agencies, I would say go ahead and just do it.
BUT- that’s not how it works.
It won’t simply be; just let them serve and if they say they are gay who cares, it will turn into a huge bruhaha where in now, every single lapse or 'offense' no matter how inconsequential or small will be blown up, those how have been ‘in’, you know how things are, you can rank out your buddies and get ranked on in return on just about any topic including yo’ momma….sister, girlfriend or wife.
However gays will become a protected class, because every single utterance will become fodder, ‘watchdogs’ will be appointed, example; we used to have a ‘hog’ board, where we would put up pics of our wives girlfriends etc. we’d rag on each other, oh hey your girl is hot, when you go to the field next time, I am gonna pay her a visit, or when I was in Germany and our batt. would head out to the field for a few weeks and rolling down the Strasse guys from our neighbor batt. that was staying behind would yell out have a good time, I’ll check in on your wife etc…..you’d say fuc off, laugh and roll on…..a gay person if you said hey does your boyfriend take it in the ass and give you a reach around may laugh and tell you no, but your daddy does, that how is should work...but.....
I am not worried about the gay trooper per se’, it’s the jerk off who decides to get offended, who will then say something to someone then it will be blown the hell up, when its just the usual bullshit because we all know how some would love to browbeat the military as just another simian homophobic hate factor that of course, needs deep reform, and there ya go, a protected class created from whole clothe.
Boards, commissions will be created to 'purge' units of homophobic tendencies.....and we all know how that works.
THAT will make this thing a lot more disruptive than it needs to be because the military as the civilian world has become obsessed with an individual right not to be ‘harmed’ in any way shape or form.
Some say, if it aint broken don’t fix it. Some may say its broken now and unfair, yea, to an extent it is, but this isn’t Wal-Mart. And frankly screw placating or energizing a political base, politicos generally have no idea how the military operates day to day and how it functions, they are just punching a ticket.
And in the end as a practical matter I don’t think making the ability to engage in sex and all the BS that comes with it, any easier would be a good idea either, especially not in the infantry or combat arms especially.
In short soon, but not right now.
