The New York Times reported yesterday that the British military, after allowing homosexuals to serve in 2000, has encountered no complications with the policy. According to members of the Ministry of Defense, the biggest news of the policy is that "there is no news." There has been no evidence of harassment or loss of morale.
Of course, this stands in stark contrast to the U.S. military, which continues its policy of forbidding gays to serve openly. Even though we are allegedly engaged in the fight for our civilization in the war on terror, homosexuals are apparently not welcome in such an important fight. But it appears that all the arguments against allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military are mere phantom arguments.
Just as in the gay marriage debate, critics couch their opposition in the language of the horrible effects such a policy will have on the population at large and America. But these arguments lack empirical data to back them up. Let's put the policy in place, study it, and see what happens. I suspect there will be adverse effects from allowing either gay marriage or gays to serve openly in the military. But the only way to find out is to try it.
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You DO expect there will be adverse effects from allowing gay marriage or open military service? Maybe the gays can show us straight people a thing or two about staying married, because we certainly aren't doing very well ourselves. And the adverse effect of gays serving in the military will be that gays may also die or be injured needlessly in an unjust war.
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