Closing Arguments: Future of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'

I feel the ban should be lifted and all worthy soldiers discharged should be reinstated if they chose to..I am for total equality for all...I am all for gay marriage too.

Who cares. Let them serve! Now the men can be under equal threat for physical assault as women. Maybe somebody will stand up for and protect service women for a change! Ya think?!? That itself would be worth it...

Don't ask don't tell is nothing more than a slap in the face of people willing to risk their lives for the rest of us. I believe that President Obama is serious about eventually repealing it, but he needs to remember that real peoples' lives are being affected in the meantime.

One's sexual preference should be a personal and private matter when one is sharing living space with others.

It is unAmerican to forbid willful volunteers to serve our country. It boggles my mind that anyone would be against gays serving. How pathetic.

It should be lifted.

They should keep the ban. Some people are not comfortable being around homosexuals, and some homosexuals don't want everyone knowing they're gay. I really think its a personal thing that doesn't need to be discussed or even come up in conversation while on a deployment or even just training. Some things are better off left alone.

After serving and retiring from the army, I think it could survive. However, there need to be strict guidelines just like there is for the treatment of women. The first thing that has to be changed is the law. Obama cannot just authorized gays and lesbians by executive order. The law has to be changed. When Truman integrated the military there were already blacks serving and there was no law against integration of the military. Homesexual behavior is against the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (UCMJ)

Don't ask, don't tell must go! The law is the law!

The outrageous policy flaunts criminal deviant behavior...it is wrong and must be stopped!

This is ridiculous! Why discriminate and make it hard for young GLBT youth to serve their county? If they are courageous enough to fight for our rights why would we not defend their rights! Let's move on America, there are bigger issues to argue about.

Why is the United States one of the last governments to not allow gays to serve in the military? Most of todays young people do not have hangups about gay people. It really is a shame to lose some great people who are willing to make a sacrifice for their country.

I am grateful to any man or woman who chooses to serve and protect in the military. However, I do feel that is a job like any other where you are there to do their job, and not promote your sexual preferences. If you are gay and choose to serve, then you choose to serve to do your job, not to put your sexuality out there for all to know. Sexuality should not be a deciding point for joining and no one needs to know what you prefer.

Lift the ban, plain and simple. I'm an openly gay U.S. Navy veteran and there is no reason why there should be a ban. The hot racking argument is misrepresented, hot racking is when two people share the same bed at different times, not at the same time, so the bed never cools, therefore the term "hot rack." Put up curtains in the showers that don't already have them. Full equality plain and simple.

Don't Ask, Don't tell shoud be abolished NOW. How can the army justify discharging honorable, qualified soldiers because of their sexual orientation? It's totally discriminatory. Soldiers should be judged by their actions and their abilities, not their private preferences.

Gay's having been serving in the military since there have been military. Why kick out service people whom are doing dedicated jobs for all of us. Too many well qualified members doing specialized duties for the armed services are being kicked out and costing the country the loss of their specialized skills. It's time for DADT to be kick-out of the service and retired.

Dont ask don't tell is the most ridiculous policy. We are losing great talented people because of this. I live in Syracuse, NY and yesterday Sgt. Choi, a West Point grad and Arabic speaking translator was discharged under DADT. Who cares what someone's sexual preference is? They are at work. How does it affect their performance in the military. It is discriminatory and wrong, and Obama should end it tomorrow.

We should lift the ban. Heterosexuals and homosexuals are human beings and should not be discriminated. Obama should just make an executive order to stop "Don't Ask Don't tell" policy.

Don't ask don't tell policy is ignorant; men and women work together all the time in a professional way without sex interfering; men who are homosexuals could do the same thing. Work is work. Sexual harrassment could happen in any sexual preference group and should be prosecuted equally in any group. We can't afford to kick qualified people out of the military!

Unless you serve in the military or have a family member who serves, you really can't make an informed or intelligent decision. Ask those who are laying their lives down for your freedom - take a poll in the military ranks. It's their lives this is messing with not ours.

Any sort of gender or sexual practice bias is risky for a freedom-yearning society. A slap in the face doesn't help anyone.