Bollocks
Despite what most Americans think, that the United States is the best country in the world, we seem to come up rather short in a lot of areas. One of those areas has been in the department of equal rights for people who just happen to like those of the same sex. Now we seem to have an opportunity to at long last put ourselves on par with most of the rest of the civilized countries on the planet, and allow homosexuals to openly serve their country in the military. On a whim I queried the Internet to see if I could find a list of countries who allow gays to openly serve in their military, and of course Wikipedia has a rather exhaustive list. Click here for said list.
It’s a bit revealing that some of the countries on that list have managed to deal with this issue and not disintegrate into a vortex of chaos. What’s even more telling is who we’re on the list with. I actually wonder with some doubt that we’ll be able to pull it off, but c’mon it’s 2010, and with so many challenges facing the U.S. can’t we treat this as the non-issue that it is? Maybe once this is done we can move forward on the government issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples.