Spazz wrote:Oh please morale is going to suffer cuz of some queers ? Your telling me that these warriors are going to lose sleep cuz the guy next to them might wanna suck a dick?
History tends to repeat itself Harrison and I know your not half as dumb as you like to pretend to be. Look at the arguments about about blacks in the army from a million years ago and your going to find a lot of the same arguments word for word.
Perhaps morale is at an all time low due to 10 years of bullshit wars fought over who can even say any more with no end in sight. I know personally I would be alot more upset with losing a friend to an ied or tbi than what the next guy wants to do with his wang. This shit is childish and to boo a gay servicemen is fuckin low.
I man can fight for freedom or corp interests or whatever but he cant be honest about who he is or who he loves .... Thats fuckin wack. Its not political tricks to stand up for EVERYONES rights its a decent thing to
Kinda funny to hear a military washout talkin like hes a soldier. Im sick to death of people expecting they personal prejudices to be enforced on everyone. Hear it all the time this guy over here hates niggers that guy over there hates fags them dudes hate atheists that chick hate christians and so on and so on. Heres the reality of the situation you dont have to like them or agree but they got the right to think it. Every god damn person has the right to feel and think whatever they want its people who want to enforce they opinions on everyone that annoys the shit out of me .
You don't get it.
It doesn't matter if the retard who hates gays is wrong or not, or how many of them there are, or how few. The fact of the matter is that they DO exist, and there are more of them than anyone would like to admit. Same as racists, but racism is less and less of an issue as the years go on and soon enough homophobes will be just as rare. (Most prevalent in the south, obviously.) Yes they're scumbags, and ignorant as fuck but, that doesn't detract from the FACT that making a huge deal of inconsequential bullshit like the openness of someone else's sexuality hurts morale in the field. And that can cost lives that otherwise wouldn't have been lost.
Now that it's been put in, and taken out, there is a wholly different problem that people like you, just don't understand and I wouldn't expect you to.
You missed the point of what I said entirely and harped on some imaginary bigotry on my part that doesn't exist. Like I said, we knew who the gay people were. 99.99999% of us didn't give one flying fuck. This is mainly because my unit was MA based and most if not all of us are from here, but we had some from out of state that moved in.
All this did was make a huge show of what was effectively nothing, because people can't mind their fucking business about the personal lives of others for the benefit of their political maneuvering.
And calling me a washout because of my medical discharge is disgustingly sad. I didn't get discharged for misconduct, AWOL, or anything of the sort and in no way takes away from my inside perspective of the military in general. The year or so I spent enlisted, training, going to drill, gave me far more insight on this than your
purely outside perspective on the matter.
