Well, if you beleive that our service men and women are nothing more than animals who can't take "NO" for an answer and will rape everyone in sight, I suppose there's not a lot that can be said to change one's mind.

See - the thing is, I know a lot of gays, lesbians and bisexuals (actually it's more accurate to say I *have* known more as many that I've known have moved/drifted away as decades have passed). Over the years I got to know more about those in my family, those I worked with and those I was friends with. The misconceptions and pre-conceived notions are sometimes shocking, sometimes downright criminal.

Women in the military, mixed-race units - they were both called "social experiments" by detractors in their day. The military had a policy of believing that blacks were inferior and incapable of flying airplanes until the "experiment" of the Tuskegee Airmen.

Now the Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs says it's time for the policy to go - as soon as they can work out issues concerning base housing, benefits, etc - and now John McCain, who said in 2006 that he would support repealing "Don't Ask Don't Tell" when the military brass said it was time, has now flip-flopped 100% and says it's not the time.

Can you honestly say that it's "correct" to discharge someone just because of who they are attracted to? Especially in the cases a few years ago where Arab translators were in such high demand and low supply in Iraq, yet kicked out because they were accused of being gay!