Gay’s in the Militarty

The subject of Gays in the military has been debated over many times by many people. When dealing with whether or not gays should be allowed in the military the simple question of, Do they want to be in the military?, must be answered. After this question is answered you can begin analyzing the problem. The answer to the question, Do gays want to be in the military?, is an unquestioned yes. Gays would be proud and determined to protect this beautiful country in which we live. I personally am confused as to why there is even a question of whether or not gays should be allowed to protect and die for a country they love. I do understand however the question of where should they live, both in the field and at their home base. It is hard for a man or women to get undressed in front of someone of the same sex, that may be looking at them with different eyes. When I say different eyes I mean a man looking at a man and thinking," wow he's cute", or a women looking at a women and thinking the same thing. It would be very awkward for non-gay soldiers to deal with this problem.

I believe that segregating gays from straight people is as fundamental as segregating men and women. If the gay and straight people's living quarters are integrated then what about men and women's living quarters, are they to be integrated too? I don't see any arguments about that, it seems that the separation of man and women has become such an integral part of our society that we have come to take as a norm. The sexual culture of the U.S. today is extremely terbulent for human sexuality and this is proven by the hardships that gays and lesbians go through on a day to day basis. On one hand you have the "In group" which is non-gay people, and on the other hand we have the "Out group" which is the gay and lesbian community. This is a classic example of how a prejudice is used to keep the, "Out group" down and out. This is because any culture that tries to identify and prosecute something as hidden as a secret homosexual identity can only do so by creating a climate of fear and hypocrisy. It must encourage unfounded accusations and it must submit unfairly accused people to brutal and destructive interrogations. In the case of gays, this must be done whether or not the suspected parties recognize themselves as gay or lesbian prior to the interrogations. Military examples of these interrogations sometimes sound like brainwashing. There are currently gays in the military. A ban cannot keep gays out. There are just as many gays in the military as there are in civilian life. Policing the military to eliminate homosexuality does not eliminate homosexuals but it does create a climate of anxiety that causes a sexually toxic situation for everyone, straights as well as gays, because straights can be mislabeled as gay in our current military. Straights are also able to keep gays down because of this anxiety. The present view of our government on gays in the military is a policy