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Should Gays Participate Openly in the US Military?

by francislholland | July 21, 2009 at 08:50 am

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I believe that gays should and soon will be able to serve openly in the US military.

While many ex-military people have adamantly opposed ALL gay service in the military, Markos Moulitsas stands out among them because he is supposed to be a "liberal" "leftist" "progressive". If so, why did he write a letter adamantly opposing ALL gays in the military? Watch the video.

Here's a link to a screenshot of the January 25, 1993 letter that Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga published in which he opposed ALL gay service in the military. These don't sound like the words of a "liberal" "leftist" "progressive" to me. They sound like Moulitsas is channeling Phyllis Schaffley and that commentaror O'Reilly.

Here's link to the original letter in the archives of the Northern Illinois University student newspaper, the "Northern Star" (Oops! The archives are down again.)

Well, here's a link to a petition in favor of gays serving openly in the military and demanding that Markos Moulitsas disavow his letter in opposition to gays in the military.

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Arbol

at 10:03 on July 21st, 2009

I didn't know gay people couldn't serve openly in the US military. It sounds like back to the middle XX century when black people couldn't share the same bathroom with whites.

francislholland

at 11:34 on July 21st, 2009

Although I don't like to say that gay and Black issues are identical, yet in this case it's pretty much the same. The only difference is that a white gay person can follow the "don't tell" rule about his sexuality while Black men never had the option of not telling the military,

"Can I trust you with a secret? Don't tell anyone, but my skin is brown."

Otherwise, the fear, ignorance, and boogeyman tales about the Blacks and gays have a lot in common. In Moulitsas' letter, he says that unit "morale", cohesion, "discipline" "pride" and all the rest will ALL suffer is gays are in the military. But they said the same things about Blacks, the same boogeyman stories, fifty years before Colin Powell led the US military during the first Gulf War.