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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
My concern isn't about troops following or not following orders, but the way the troops treat the service members that are gay. Will they be treated with the respect ad dignity they deserve or will they be subjected to ridicule and harassment? What if the vocal homophobe/evangelical types( I've served with quite a few) demand separate barracks or showers?
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I rather epect things to be handled in military order. There
is a sexual harassment problem in the military, but primarily from straight males to women, not from gay to straight.
I don't think every gay soldier is going to out his/herself immediately, and I think the majority of them have people in their unit who know already.
Because of the publicity I expect that harassment will be handled fairly quickly and without much leeway as a whole. And as far as I'm concerned the vocal homophobe who demands separate showers can have it pointed out to him that he's been sharing a shower with a gay man this whole time and hasn't been raped yet and he can suck it up and deal with it or trot his ass out of the military altogether.
That said, I'm under the impression, per some military friends, that the number of group showers/barracks are decreasing steadily and have been for a while now.
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