A soldier serving in Iraq asked Santorum at a debate about the repeal of DADT and the audience booed the soldier for being gay. Santorum’s response was to call the repeal of DADT a social experiment and that sexual activity has no place in the military.
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Okay when I’m at work, I’m at work. I’m not in the closet but I’m also not waving the rainbow banner throughout the day to my coworkers either. Our parent company is all about diversity in the workforce and whatnot so I’m protected in case the “wrong person” finds out that I’m gay.
This is fine for a corporate desk job. I see these people between 9-5 and then email/phone calls later on if there are more things that need to be done but that’s it. Not too much personal there. If I had to be completely closeted I could be. It would be an unneccessary burden but it’d be doable.
Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t you tend to get to know your fellow servicemen pretty well while in the military? You train together, you fight together, you eat together, you sleep together (in the same room not the same bunk) . . . That’s a huge request on someone to say “Don’t talk about your life” when all the other guys are talking about this chick or that chick and trying to get the same out of you.
Nevermind that DADT provided an avenue for witchhunts to happen. One friend of mine was discharged under it after his stuff was ransacked and they found the evidence they needed.
No one was asking for the ability to engage in gay sex on the battlefield. (though wouldn’t that be a means of enemy distraction?
) Those that choose to be in the military just want to be able to be honest about one piece of their life. Now it can be known and moved on from.
The other thing here . . . How the hell are you going to restart DADT with all the gay servicemen and servicewomen out? You can’t. The cows are out of the barn. They’re not going back in. Even if they wanted to how could they?
Great point about the cows being out of the barn.
He says he didn’t hear the booing-