Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Whatever Keeps Them Effective

Normally, I’d say whatever. If you want to be gay, be gay. If you want to marry another man, go ahead. But if revealing the fact that you are gay effects the capability and the cohesion of the unit to do its job, mainly killing the bad guys (some people call that “bringing them to justice”) then that’s a bad idea.

If you ask me, it’s more like a job requirement. You know how some jobs require that you can left 50lbs of weight? Well, this job requires you to stay mum about your sexual orientation. If you don’t like the job, quit. Don’t join. No one is saying “don’t be gay” – they are just saying “don’t mention it” – for the sake of the strength of the unit. If this weakens the unit, then it should not happen.

The warriors of Sparta were the most formidable fighting force of the time. The phalanx required the locking of shields together in a certain way, at a certain height, each man protecting the next. One break, one weak link, and the whole phalanx would collapse.

The unit in the field is the same: the enemy have enough ways to make us weaker, why should we do it to ourselves?