Alan I’m sorry, but there is no rape epidemic in the military, that’s just plain BS and I believe that your intelligent enough to know that. Now on with my point. I did not say that gay and lesbian people are incapable of being excellent soldiers. I personally don’t have any real strong feelings about the matter either way. With that being said if heterosexual men and women where mandated to sleep and shower together someone would feel very uncomfortable with such a forced intimacy.

Now I am aware that gay people may have served honorably RIGHT BESIDE me in every aspect during my military career. But knowing that my coworker is openly attracted to men or other women would be uncomfortable to say the least, and not just too me.

That is the gist of the matter, it’s not only about how you may feel. Just like an heterosexual woman would feel uncomfortable with some man showering beside her sneaking peeks when she’s not looking neither would I be comfortable. Heterosexual men could sleep and shower with heterosexual women and not sexually assault them while in sleeping quarters or the shower head. Some of you may be gay, but that doesn’t make you sexual deviant predators or future criminals. It’s all about morale and being comfortable around other people.

If the DSDT policy is abolished then other policies should be implemented so that everyone is happy.

This is my opinion, your welcome to yours and I’m welcome to mine. I didn’t come here to start trouble, I clicked this link and that link and I ended up here. Being an ex military man I was curious about the subject topic.

You already do shower,sleep and do your job in the same facilities with LGBT people. They are there to do a job. They are not there to have sex. The only separate showers and sleeping quarters are as they already are.
Most if not ALL LGBT soldiers are not going to try and offend you in any way. This is not the way it seems to be the way with heterosexuals in the armed services. With all the reports that we keep hearing about with rapes and such.
Please realize that if LGBT soldiers are not allowed to serve openly that they have to lie in order to stay in the service. And also realize that if ALL the people that identify as LGBT were kicked out of the service at one time the results would be devastating to our country.That would also mean that it is only the heterosexuals that end up dying just so the LGBT can enjoy their life back here in CONUS.
I suggest that you rethink as to what you have said. Be glad and thankful that those same people that you don’t want to shower with, were there to help cover your lilly white ass when you were getting shot at.

I am attracted to women and would very much enjoy sleeping in the same courters and using the same showers as my female cohorts. But if this sounds unreasonable, why should a straight man or woman have to endure such a thing? What are you guys thought on the matter? Should there be separate shower and sleeping courters for all?

things that effect more than one person take time, accept it. It sucks, but so does life. It will happen, maybe not at the pace we wnat but it will happen.

Isn’t that a SIN? why do all the Right Wing Christian Taliban, Republinuts, want a Military full of ignant liars?

I was approached by the navy because of my Language(s) background and my ASVAB scores, etc. and I said NOPE, they said “we’ll make you an officer because of your college degree” and I thought do I join as a Liar or use my education and skills elsewhere?

I didn’t join and to this day, glad I didn’t. I am not gonna be something dishonest, fake and be a conformist of hate, bigotry and ignorance.

“Candidate Obama promised to be a President for ALL Americans. PRESIDENT Obama has thrown Gay Americans aside in the name of pandering to the religious extremists who seek to make America a Theocracy, the American Taliban.”