{"id":304305,"date":"2010-02-10T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T01:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=66443"},"modified":"2010-02-10T20:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T01:15:59","slug":"us-voters-say-%e2%80%9clet-gays-serve%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/304305","title":{"rendered":"US Voters Say \u201cLet Gays Serve\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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photo: Jason Pier via Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In a Quinnipiac poll released today and featured on Tucker Carlson’s new media “empire” The Daily Caller<\/a>, American voters overwhelmingly favor allowing gays to serve openly in the United States military.<\/p>\n

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Homosexuals should be able to openly serve in the U.S. military, American voters say 57 \u2013 36 percent. Voters also say 66 \u2013 31 percent the current policy of not allowing openly gay men and women to serve is discrimination, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oddly, while Americans favor open service, and want Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repealed because two-thirds of them call it discrimination, they seem to favor something I’m going to call Don’t Camp Don’t Butch<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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But by a 54 \u2013 38 percent margin, American voters say gays in the military should face restrictions on exhibiting their sexual orientation on the job, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN- uh-pe-ack) University poll finds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t understand why anyone except sex workers are displaying their sexual orientation on the job, so I guess heterosexual soldiers should face these same restrictions. I mean, who “exhibits” their sexual orientation on the job, anyway? Does that mean you can’t put pictures of your partner up in your cubicle at the Naval Air Station? Or that you can’t wear drag makeup at reveille? No pumps at the Pentagon, gentlemen?<\/p>\n

Go figure. I think this says more about Americans’ attitudes towards sexuality than homosexuality: keep it all<\/em> in the closet.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Spencer Ackerman has a great report<\/a> about the 10th Mountain Division commander’s website open forum for those under his command to state their views about repeal.<\/p>\n

Here’s an excerpt, but please do go read the whole thing:<\/p>\n

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Few of the thread\u2019s 77 comments express any hesitation about the repeal\u2019s impact unit cohesion or combat readiness or any other arguments typically used to justify keeping openly gay servicemembers out of the military.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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photo: Jason Pier via Flickr In a Quinnipiac poll released today and featured on Tucker Carlson’s new media “empire” The Daily Caller, American voters overwhelmingly favor allowing gays to serve openly in the United States military. Homosexuals should be able to openly serve in the U.S. military, American voters say 57 \u2013 36 percent. Voters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}