Homosexuals in the Military

I'll add this - homosexuals should not be allowed into the military unless all barracks, showers and bathrooms are converted to unisex. Why? I ask you to question why the separation currently exists. To answer, I pose that the uncomfortable unease of shower gawking, molestation, rape, etc. affect a unit's ability to work together as a team. Thus, the basic separation is in place as a barrier to immediate access. This is not to say none of these things happen anyway, but the happen in situations external to directly putting men and women in the shower together for instance. That sort of separation does not exist when you're dealing with lesbians or gays in the shower or barracks room. That basic premise comes up again, the soldiers within the unit simply become uncomfortable with one another to the point that it affects operational cohesion - which gets people killed. It sounds stupid, mundane and oversimplified but it's just human nature.

So when the system goes unisex and proves itself to function, then humans have proven the emotional maturity and self control with which there is no argument against homosexuals. But I doubt humans can control that nature and that is the very reason I don't see the tolerance to allow homosexuals that kind of access.

Obviously, some people today have that kind of control. And any unknown homosexuals serving today under the "don't ask / don't tell" policy show that this scenario is not causing problems and can be done. But if the policy went away and people assumed, well, I have complete access to the men's shower to gape and gawk at people that are in far better physical condition than everywhere else ... you are going to have a problem.

For the record, I don't have anything against homosexuals as people. I'm merely stating a reason that this situation has problems.

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