I read about this the other day. If the U.S. military wants to keep “don’t ask, don’t tell”, that’s fine. But enforce it consistently!

If you’re not aware, under President Clinton a compromise was forged that no one liked on letting gays in the military: if the gay person stays closeted and doesn’t come out while in the military, the military supposedly won’t investigate or ask and the person can stay in. Only if it comes out in the open (the gay person tells another person in the military, is seen kissing a person of the same sex, etc.) can the military discharge them.

In reality, the military has baited many gays and lesbians, frequently looked the other way on gay bashings, and sent MPs to gay bars looking for closeted officers. Many first world countries (Britian is the only one at the moment that comes to mind) have integrated open gays into their military and even recruited them, disproving the conservatives’ belief that gays in the U.S. military would disintegrate unit cohesion (even though thousands of GLBT Americans serve in the military in the closet).

But this latest hypocritical change is very frustrating. If someone says they are gay and are about to be shipped to Iraq, they are still shipped out to risk their life, and told they will be discharged when they return. So, they apparently won’t harm unit cohesion while they’re out there fighting in harm’s way, but once they’re back here they will and can be kicked out. What a bunch of hypocritical ignorant loser assholes.

Military rep: Gays are being sent to war - Yahoo! News