of course you have. Nothing I've written indicates I have a problem with the gay soldier, gay soldiers in general, gayness, or anything else gay.Hoops, I may have made incorrect assumptions about why you have a problem with the gay soldier.
Yes, you are. You perceived me to be one way because of your bias, rather than from the words I've chosen.I'm not anxiously trying to paint you with anything.
This is my comment you accurately referenced: The military, until recently, had a ban on gays (rightly or wrongly) yet the gay soldiers knowingly violated that rule, presumably to promote some agenda.
What in the above leads you to believe I have some issue with gay soldiers? A reasonable reading would have one conclude that I have a problem with someone volunteering for an organization in order knowing that he/she has an agenda to change that organization. Frankly, that's sneaky, dishonest, and smarmy. It has nothing to do with gayness, it has everything to do with being a punk.
You could have got this by just taking me at my word.Your comment appears to reflect negatively on the gay soldier--that he violated a rule and probably had an agenda. My response was about why there may be a good reason for breaking certain rules. Now it sounds like he may not have broken any rules in the first place and that the problem you have was simply that he presumably had an agenda.
Or, perhaps, you should be more reflective. Maybe it was your own bias that led you here.If I didn't know better, I'd almost think you're being a bit disingenuous.
Whatever the reasons why it was repealed, it still was repealed. Isn't that the point? Now folks have to have the right motivation to repeal it?For people to be happy it was repealed because it was a stupid law?
Good.In this situation--where DADT is already repealed? Nothing.
More buzz words. What does level playing field even mean? I am suspicious of anyone who wants a level playing field because that has no end.The problem is that the playing field isn't level at this point if we simply decide not to pay attention--especially for socio-economic backgrounds.
EVERYONE suffer persecution of some kind. What do you propose?See, here's the thing for me. I realize that homosexuals do suffer persecution and need some special protection.
How do we NOT have that now?Still, I'm not really comfortable with people celebrating it as though it's some wonderful thing to be gay. Sure, it's their right and all if they want to. However, nobody (except perhaps my wife) really cares that I'm a heterosexual. Nobody's gonna give me any kind of analogous congratulations to someone who comes out of the closet. I think the disclosure of homosexuality should effect me precisely as much as the disclosure of heterosexuality--not at all. Nobody harasses me because of it. If only we lived in such a world for homosexuals. We don't, but we can at least celebrate that the government has made significant improvement there with the removal of DADT.