{"id":9814,"date":"2007-02-02T14:05:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T19:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9814.html"},"modified":"2007-02-02T14:05:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T19:05:49","slug":"majority-approves-of-gays-in-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/majority-approves-of-gays-in-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority approves of gays in the military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s safe to say that opponents of gays serving in the military are officially <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2007\/02\/02\/new-poll-on-dont-ask-dont-tell\/\">out of arguments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new poll from Harris Interactive found that 55% of Americans think gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military. By comparison, 19% of the 2,337 Americans polled said gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve \u201conly if they keep their sexual orientation a secret,\u201d and 18% said they should \u201cnot be allowed to serve in the military at all.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This dovetails nicely with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/wn_report\/story\/481573p-405277c.html\">Zogby poll of U.S. troops<\/a> released about a month ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new poll reveals that 73% of military members say they are comfortable around lesbians and gays. And 23% say they know an active duty soldier in their unit who is lesbian or gay&#8230;. More than half &#8212; 55% &#8212; of the troops who know a gay peer said the presence of gays or lesbians in their unit is well known by others. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who defend the law have argued that openly gay personnel harm military readiness. This research highlights the absurdity of such a hypothesis,\u201d said C. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A majority of American civilians are ready to scrap &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221;; a majority of American troops are fine with serving alongside gay servicemembers. Remind me, what arguments are left on the other side?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s safe to say that opponents of gays serving in the military are officially out of arguments. A new poll from Harris Interactive found that 55% of Americans think gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military. By comparison, 19% of the 2,337 Americans polled said gays and lesbians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}