Don't Ask, Don't Tell...

OK...so I'm probably about to lose a few friends over this post, but if you're a true friend, you won't question my logic here.

So, President Obama has decided that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" mantra of the United States military is no longer appropriate and I couldn't agree more. In my humble opinion, I don't think being gay or lesbian is a choice. I know, I know...there's a whole bunch of you who will huff and puff about how the Bible says it's a sin, but it's also important to remember the era in which that was mentioned in the Bible. Back then, people didn't know that sticking body parts into other parts of the body without protecting those body parts with a thin piece of latex (or sheep intestines) was the sole reason those body parts would become terribly infected and/or fall off. So, in the interest of public health, someone said, "We should tell people it's a sin and God will punish them if they continue this behavior." Problem solved. The fear of going to hell will surely keep this behavior from happening anymore.

But they were wrong. It didn't stop the behavior. I can't explain it medically, scientifically or any other damn way other than to use what most people would call "LOGIC". Granted, God doesn't make mistakes. I'll give you that one, but we, as human beings, do. We also are not smart enough to fully understand how the body works, how the chemistry of the body works or even how genetics may play a role in being gay. Sure, we have a pretty good understanding of how certain things work and what organs do what and why they do it, but if we're so damned smart about the human body, why is there still cancer? Why is there Swine flu? Why the hell can we not figure out how to cure the common freakin' cold?

There have been numerous studies in animals and humans that attempt to explain homosexual behavior. In the animal kingdom, homosexuality is fairly present. Certain insects regularly practice homosexual behavior. There was even one human study in homosexuality that was pretty fascinating. It suggested that families with three or more boys had a higher occurrence of the younger son being homosexual than families with only one son and the rest girls. The study suggested that the levels of testosterone in the mother's body during pregnancy with a male fetus might be offset by the mother's body producing abnormally high levels of estrogen and thus giving the fetus the message that it should be a girl, not a boy. This suggestion by the study applied to women who had three or more sons and the more boys the woman had, the more estrogen produced in subsequent pregnancies.

If homosexuality is a choice, then I chose a long time ago to be heterosexual. I've known I was heterosexual since the first day I can remember being alive. To me, 90% of homosexuals didn't CHOOSE to be homosexual (the other 10% are just confused hedonists). It's in the chemistry. It's in the hormones. It's definitely nothing we've been able to scientifically explain, but the medical community hasn't exactly explained why I have Restless Leg Syndrome either. But, by God, there's a pill for it.

Look, there's nothing wrong with women or homosexuals in the military. As I once heard a comedian explain it, we should welcome women and gays in the military and segregate it, too. In a wartime situation, you would first send in the men, the warriors...let them kill the enemy and then pull them out. Next, send in the women. They'll finish off those who won't comply to our demands. Finally, send in the gays. They'll have the whole place redecorated and spruced up in no time!

I don't have a lot of gay friends or hang around a bunch of gay people. But the ones I do know are genuine people and I've enjoyed getting to know them and they can be a lot of fun to hang out with. If anything, I'm more concerned about radical Muslims (not ALL Muslims...just the radical, "I want all non-Muslims dead", Muslims) being in the military than I am about a gay or lesbian soldier fighting for our country. And just for the record, radical, fundamentalist Christians scare the crap out of me, too.

And that's demotivational enough for me.