Eric

I was in the military.

What you may not understand are the reasons that men in the military don't want openly gay men in the military. Here's why:

When I was in the Army, I had to shower butt naked with 50 other men at the same time. You are assigned to sleeping quarters and have little or no say over who you share quarters with. In basic training and in field exercises, we always had to share open air latrines, without dividers between the commodes.

I don't want to share housing, toilet, and shower facilities with other human beings whose are sexually oriented to my sex. I don't think that's an unreasonable request, seeing as how men and women have had exactly that arrangement since invention of the wall.

So if you allow openly gay men in the military, the next thing you need to do is eliminate female housing, toilet, and shower facilities, and make everything co-ed. Women who say that straight men should be required to shower, defecate, and sleep next to gay men should be required to do the same with straight men. HOW IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?

Straight people have rights too. I have the right not to be required to share intimate hygenic, housing, and toilet facilities with any person who I know is sexually oriented toward people of my sex.

Now, if they provide separate gay and straight housing, I would strongly agree with you that neither I nor any other person has the right to object to that.

I love gay people. Jesus loves gay people. But you do not have the right to make me share communal housing and toilet facilities with openly gay people.

__________________