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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
The bold part is still probably debatable although I tend to agree with you.
I think that there was a time when the policy made sense from a pragmatic point of view in terms of the homophobia of perhaps the majority of young men the military wanted to recruit. (I'm deliberately avoiding getting into the right of someone to serve and not be discriminated against, and what the military should be doing in terms of the minority group.)
But I think we're moving into a generation that has a lot fewer people who haven't already known and worked with homosexual people before they enlist. I think there will still have to be policies about soldiers dating each other, like those we have for heterosexuals already. But I don't think that homosexuals serving presents the same difficulties that it might once have. Basically, the armed services could get rid of the policy because they don't need the policy, and I kind of expect them to, rather than that they will be compelled to because of a lawsuit.
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I was being sarcastic; I'm in the subset of people who think that sexual orientation is something you're born with, not something that's learned. I understand, though, that there are people who disagree with me.
I'm fairly liberal on social issues (i.e. gay marriage, gays in the military, etc.), but I don't see a whole lot of difficulties. There are women in the military now, so the dating issue is apparently not as big a deal.
But, I'm not bothered at all by people's sexual orientations, so that colors my opinion on the issue.