JoeB131
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This poll is just for us right wingers. Do you support the repeal of DADT?
Here's my thought on it.
The military have a who slew of reasons of why people can't join. Medical conditions, weight, height, political leanings (can't join if you are an admitted communist or Nazi) etc. Nearly all of those have a justifiable reason.
The rational behind DADT was that homosexuality was still incompatable with military service, but as long as you didn't tell anyone, no one is going to ask you about it. There was also the third component, "Don't Persue". (So it was technically DADTDP) If your superiors suspected, they weren't supposed to hunt it down. That didn't work out quite as well because a few officers were.
Still, most of the guys and gals discharged under DADT were people who outed themselves, when they figured out the military was the cool thing their recruiters told them it was. This was probably the case before DADT, which was my experience, that if you did your job and didn't cause trouble, no one cared what you did off duty.
So my thought was, if the military was unwilling to put down in no uncertain terms why homosexuality was incompatable with military service, then you might as well allow it.