Do they go to Gay Bars to do these polls?
This is a crock of crap.
If you are connected with any groups of youths, you would understand this and not be surprised or doubting.
Like it or not, we’ve been telling our school children for 30 years now that discrimination is wrong, and for at least the last 10 years that this includes gays and lesbians.
Meanwhile, since DADT was implemented, there has been no real effort to explain to the public any reasons WHY gays and lesbians would disrupt the military. And DADT allowed gays and lesbians to populate the military.
So now, the question cannot be “do gays and lesbians destroy the military — they’ve been serving for 16 years, and our military seems to be in pretty good shape. The argument instead has to be “KNOWING someone is gay or lesbian will disrupt the military.
But the military is largely a young person’s profession. And the young people have grown up in a world where gays and lesbians are public. They not only know gays and lesbians, they KNOW that they know gays and lesbians, and are friends with them, and simply don’t see the problem.
We MIGHT, if we can stay focused, articulate the problems, and stand our ground, be able to stave off gay marriage. And we SHOULD fight so that congress HAS to vote to legalize gays in the military, rather than pulling this executive order stuff.
But the fight is over. When our best and brightest hopes for President have apparent issue with gays in the military OTHER than to ensure that it doesn’t disrupt things, how can we hope to turn this loss back?
And the truth is, if we can’t win it, but we fight it, and we fight with dire predictions of horror, and they do NOT come true, it will just destroy our credibility in the fight that matters most, that of Gay Marriage.