I have some questions for anyone who supports open homosexuality in the military. These questions come because I think that before giving into appearances or emotions on the issue we need to sit down and look at the big picture. The fundamental problem we see with all this nonsense with ridding the at moment best option Don't Ask Don't Tell is that many are themselves unaware of why this policy was even in place. Plus the nature of our military is different than getting a regular job and therefore not really under normal circumstances that we would judge discrimination. I am of course not saying that there is form of it or that it is excusable. I am saying however that before politicising our military we ask questions which may not be considered. I am not at all saying gays cannot be or cannot function in the miltary. Instead looking at the most important thing which is in fact the security of our great country and protecting us and the world from the villianous scum who'd wish us harm. Remember this is an issue of excepting and therefore creating a special class or making an exception. I can understand that many would wish that we consider the gay lifestyle the same as hetrosexual but in all truth it is not the case. This of course begins with our first question.
1. Do you honestly see the military as an employer instead of an intuition?
One of the biggest flaws in the thinking of those who are supporting open homosexuality in the military. Is that we see this as equal opportunity issue that usually deals with private sector jobs. To make this a equality thing makes the waters muddied when looking at the dangerous and extremely important nature of our military. It's not so much an we have a right issue, afterall the individual must become part of collective. This does mean that a group of strangers must be able to work, live, breath and fight together for the goal of insuring safety, freedom and prosperity around the world. Men and women must be united in a goal. For this reason we must suspend the IDENTITY of the indidvidual so that mission is accomplished. This of course is why it is hard for many to make this scrifice and of course is one reason we honor and cherish our military. This is also in place to ensure that open discrimination limited and this is the goal is it not. While I will not refute that it is not perfect, it is better than many other alternatives. While in the private sector it is important to curve discrimination and that it is important to do so that fact remains that some jobs and fields require certain skills and mindsets. This is true in the miltary. I personally was not medically allowed in. Did this mean I was discriminated against? No, but that I have what is necessary to do the job. It's not that gays can't it's the problems that come from allowing an open policy. This is one of the reasons that while in some people's eyes a noble cause this game only continues to in fact it harder for gays in the military. That is the reason equal opportunity itself is not so much a law or a mandate rather a common held goal endorsed by the government. The truth is that the "employer" still holds the right to employ whom they wish unless dealing with business in the public sector. Even then some jobs are just not suitable for all. This concept is understood in why many employers require physicals and mental evaluations depending on the job. Even with this the case we cannot view or consider our military as such. The military itself is an intuition established by our government to ensure the safety of our republic her people and interests.It functions outside the normal parameters of even regular government jobs due to the nature of it's role. The military main role is not providing jobs even though it does.
2. Do you not understand the nature of the military and its need for commonality?
The military's main role is not providing jobs as mentioned above so therefore it's unique and important purpose trumps any kind of benign intentions or goals. It's nature is in fact pragmatic as it is dire. Many in the military serve in important and vital roles that require trust and brotherhood. While yes their 'jobs' and 'careers' are in the military it's dependability however relies on habitual commonality that protects individuals by making a unified presence. This also becomes the primary paradigm for which our military functions. Make no mistake in undermining how many people not just within the military but around the world's whose lives depend on the efficient, dependable, and unfailing need the military provides.
3. So why is this issue this important?
Understand me correctly on this, I am in no way undermining the discrimination homosexuals or anyone else experience in our nation. I DO think it is important to curve it but in all truth does making it a political stunt in the military really help the "gay cause" or therefore the military ? In my mind everyone loses in this aspect because we cause further hate for homosexuals on this one, not because I or anyone else thinks they can't. It is obviously never been an issue of whether gays can join, whats the issue is being open about. This sets them aside and makes the process that every other military memeber goes through into a reverse discrimination. No one has really brought to mention other groups like Christians who since the Clinton era have faced discrimnation. Even other minorities are faced with being discrimnated against. The truth is that besides the built in differences that can normally occur this will infact create and us vs. them reality that will divide our miltary. This will only lead to more (not less) discrimination against gays. Is this really what you want?
Despite how wronged you may feel, please dispence with the energy and emotion on how gays are not a part of normal society. It never has been and while you may want to have that debate fine do it, but does using the military to institute it or even having the debate do any justice to anyone? No, why? Because the military is important, and cannot be made grounds for an open lecture on lifestyle, it's nature cannot support it. I believe that how much we can get overwhelmed with what's right we can become obsecure to the realiies of the world we live in and ergo cause further lasting damage then just not wanting a gay to be open about it. We have bigger fish to fry and more urgent matters in which our military has far more important tasks like defending this country instead of being used for a soap box. If you wish to change society's view on being openly gay then go ahead and do it in the public square, just don't do it with an institution that has depended, and may I add been very successful in doing its job as is. It has been in fact policies and attempts like this that has to many problems in our military. Don't ask Don't Tell was a sorry excuse to in fact try deal with this issue when the military was never designed to deal with this issue. I also might add that it was democrat Bill Clinton that did in fact put this into policy. What we can actually see, is how this issue hurt the goals that those who supported open homosexuality in the military in the past. This idea of throwing a bone and allowing a specific group special status in our military is in fact the backwards thinking that lead to the segregation of color people in the past. What in fact comes from this whole fiasco is a segregated military and in today's world with the dangers we face, it makes our country less safe. While I would love to be in a fantasy world that says that this make the world a better place, in fact the grim reality is starkly different. So I go back and I say this, what is important to you and what's important to our republic. To myself the highest paramount is a safer world with all people alive and free. The simple truth is that openly gay military only leads to more dead soldiers and I care for all so I rather see them alive then openly dead.
