(The news is a week old and I keep procrastinating, but anyway.)
The United States' nearly twenty-year-old 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' law that allowed homosexuals to serve in the military as long as they kept their sexual orientation (floabw) private was decided to be reversed via Congress late last year and was officially repealed Tuesday of last week. What's being said is that the work environment in the armed forces won't be drastically changing and there will be no special policies or conduct relating to any personal aspects including religion, orientation, political views, etc. The branches are expected to continue their unhindered focus on leadership, respect, and loyalty to maintain both honour and efficiency on and off the battlefield.
My personal take is that the repeal is obviously just a set of words trying to alter the thought process of service members. It does nothing more than upholding the previously established anonymity of the long-standing stigma, but in addition "ignoring" the issue altogether. A "we don't care anymore--so much so that we don't need a law to say so" if you will.
Yeah, I heard about this in the news a few weeks ago. Who even thought of this ridiculous law in the first place? We should just be glad to get as many soldiers as possible not worry whether or not they are homosexual.
Why does sexual orientation matter in the military? They are supposed to be soldiers. Any sexuality should be expressed in their personal time, not at work.
But also, homosexuality may not be a choice. A South Korean scientist toying with the gene sequences of mice discovered a gene that when removed causes female mice to have homosexual tendencies.
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