Should Homosexuals Be Allowed In The Military Essay
Should Homosexuals be permitted to serve in the armed forces?
Why not? For one thing, gays are serving in the military right now. Furthermore, there is no reason to believe they have not been serving in the U.S. military continuously since the Revolutionary War. I saw a documentary on TV about WW2 gay vets. They were just regular vets-many decorated-who had extra difficulty serving in the military because of homophobia. I felt bad for them.
U.S. military accepted openly-gay men in WW2. During WW2, guys used to claim they were homosexuals to get out of going into the military. Both heterosexuals and homosexuals did that.(sourse#1) The military said no dice and drafted gay anyway. Note that word “draft” they didn’t just let them enlist, they forced gay to join. These are the same people the military now says can’t come in even if they want to. Military accepted gay because they needed them, when drafting only straight men was not enough. If gay men were ever acceptable to the military, they should always be acceptable. The military can’t have both ways. …show more content…
The Uniform code of military Justice spells out what behavior is not allowed in the military,(sourse#2) if anyone, gay or otherwise, breaks the law. Why doesn’t that cover it? Why should the military need an additional law regarding who a person is rather than what he or she has done? I never heard there is any problem of some one being gay in the military. So what do the military fears? Increased use of females into previously all-male units has caused all manner of heterosexual problems, yet no one has suggested retreating from the current assignment of male and female
Why not? For one thing, gays are serving in the military right now. Furthermore, there is no reason to believe they have not been serving in the U.S. military continuously since the Revolutionary War. I saw a documentary on TV about WW2 gay vets. They were just regular vets-many decorated-who had extra difficulty serving in the military because of homophobia. I felt bad for them.
U.S. military accepted openly-gay men in WW2. During WW2, guys used to claim they were homosexuals to get out of going into the military. Both heterosexuals and homosexuals did that.(sourse#1) The military said no dice and drafted gay anyway. Note that word “draft” they didn’t just let them enlist, they forced gay to join. These are the same people the military now says can’t come in even if they want to. Military accepted gay because they needed them, when drafting only straight men was not enough. If gay men were ever acceptable to the military, they should always be acceptable. The military can’t have both ways. …show more content…
The Uniform code of military Justice spells out what behavior is not allowed in the military,(sourse#2) if anyone, gay or otherwise, breaks the law. Why doesn’t that cover it? Why should the military need an additional law regarding who a person is rather than what he or she has done? I never heard there is any problem of some one being gay in the military. So what do the military fears? Increased use of females into previously all-male units has caused all manner of heterosexual problems, yet no one has suggested retreating from the current assignment of male and female