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I am active on the religious and political blogs of our local online newspaper, CJOnline. Recently the Hot Topics author Carisa Wells blogged about Gays in the Military. Carissa starts out by stating that she feels gays should be allowed to serve in the military and ends with how having to shower with them would make her feel uncomfortable. While she is attempting to appear to be very open minded and “tolerant”, she comes off as homophobic and sanctimonious, something she manages in pretty much every blog article.

I was curious as to how others would respond and I have to admit that I was pretty incensed by the responses of the Christian conservatives. I knew that they would be against it for the most part but I wasn’t ready for the reasons that they actually put into print. It seems as though they all feel that being gay means you have no control over your animal like sexual instincts, and will sexually harass somebody because of it.

They were horrified at the thought that a gay person may see a straight person of the same sex naked and not be able to control their impulse to jump on them then and there. Another commenter thought that gay men would not be able to take someone giving them stern orders and become emotional and endanger the lives of the others in his unit.

The entire logic behind their argument is ignorant at best. They each brought up how “real” of a problem this is to our average service man or woman. In an effort to shed some light on what actual service people feel I posted the link to the Zogby poll of service people about this very issue. This is the same poll that was partially responsible for the change of heart John Shalikashvili had regarding the necessity of keeping our military openly-gay free.

Out of 500 returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, 3/4 of them were just fine with openly gay soldiers serving with them. Hmmmm, so apparently a majority of ACTUAL soldiers have no issues with the gayness so what gives? Oh, yeah the bible says it’s wrong. It doesn’t matter that the bible is only taken by them literally when it serves the purpose to discriminate against whichever group is in fashion at the time. The bible was quoted to justify slavery, oppose women’s rights, and now it’s homosexuals.

It doesn’t seem to matter to them that we specifically have separation of church and state mentioned in the constitution of this country, what the bible says on anything should have no bearing on our political decisions. Now that the fight to repeal “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is heating up, it’s time to know what your representatives in government support. Please go HERE to find out and to let them know what you think.

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