Posted by Dale Carpenter:
No news is good news:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_05_20-2007_05_26.shtml#1179788661
In Britain, seven years after being forced by a European court to
allow gays to serve openly, the policy is producing yawns:
Since the British military began allowing homosexuals to serve in
the armed forces in 2000, none of its fears � about harassment,
discord, blackmail, bullying or an erosion of unit cohesion or
military effectiveness � have come to pass, according to the
Ministry of Defense, current and former members of the services and
academics specializing in the military. The biggest news about the
policy, they say, is that there is no news. It has for the most
part become a nonissue.
Read the whole story [1]here. An interesting side note is that the
British military is keeping mum about the success of integrating
homosexuals so as to avoid embarrassing the United States, which still
expels homosexuals based on fears that have proved unfounded for its
closest ally. It's hard to escape the conclusion that America's policy
of exclusion remains in place for reasons of domestic politics, not
military need.
References
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/world/europe/21britain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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