Since I’m in the military, many of my non-military friends have been asking my opinion recently on the repeal of DADT. I’ve blogged about the issue of gay marriage several times, but when it comes to DADT and my career in the Army, my take is a little different.
To start things off, I’d like to point out that the majority of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted to postpone, but not – with the exception of the Marines – deny the repeal. Looking at the current state of our military, I can see many reasons to delay it. That being said, now that it’s done, I’m just going to go with the flow. I think there are certainly some logistics issues that need to be solved, specifically in the housing sector. If it works out, great. If not, well, then hopefully the people who pushed it can realize they were wrong, and then proceed to fix it.
I know it may seem weird for me to be so relaxed about this issue when gay marriage is one of my big ticket items. I’ve got several friends in the military who are gay or lesbian, some of them I’m one of the few people who knows about it. Despite my own beliefs, I’m not one to tell someone who they are, and that’s how I look at this. I’m most concerned about the way it’s going to work out in the end, rather than the immediate consequences for me as a member of the military.
Michael
