Sociology

In 375 B.C., an elite army of special forces--the Sacred Band of Thebes--fought the Spartans, three times their size, at Tegyra.  Inspired by the ideas set forth in Platos Symposium, the ancient Greeks developed an invincible gay army that was only defeated by the forces of Alexander the Great Gay and his father Philip II.  Who would have ever guessed that the most ideal army is a gay army  Today, in the U.S. Senate, another battle is being fought.  Homosexuals in the American military are fighting for their right to be openly gay in the armed forces, demanding that the current Dont-Ask-Dont-Tell policy be repealed.  President Obama is on their side, and why shouldnt he  For gays in the military would indeed create a passionate fighting force, it would uphold human rights, it would enable able-bodied volunteers to fight for their country, and it would end the imperialist policies of America around the world that has embedded negative images of the United States on every world citizens mind, drained the National Treasury, increased the deficit and raised the national debt.

Platos Symposium is clear in its stand for a gay army.  In his book, Phaedrus asserts
And if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour and when fighting at each others side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this. Or who would desert his beloved or fail him in the hour of danger

Thus, according to Plutarchs Life of Pelopidas, the idea of developing an invincible gay army came to be.  And the Sacred Band of Thebes, 300 gay soldiers, couples who could fight more cohesively and fiercely than relative strangers, was born.  Pelopidas was a moral Greek general whose city was attacked by Spartans in 383 B.C.  So in 375 B.C. his Sacred Band fought the Spartans in the battle of Tegyra and defeated an army three times its size.  They also won in the battle of Leuctra in 371 B.C., thereby establishing their military superiority in Greece, and Thebes became the strongest city among the Greeks while the Spartans declined.

It was only after another gay leader, Alexander the Great Gay, attacked the Sacred Band that the elite force disintegrated.  Alexanders love for boys and his childhood friend Hephaestion was the flaming passion for his fighting spirit.  The Roman historian Curtius and a contemporary biographer, Eumenes, also recorded Alexanders abnormal sexual appetite.  He also fell in love with the eunuch Bagoas and one of his generals, Nabarzenes, offered him a boy as a gift.  Alexanders own father, Philip II, had multiple male lovers, and it was actually in the hands of an ex-lover, Pausanias, that he died. 

Furthermore, Rodney St. Michael in Sync My World Thiefs Honor GA SK, corresponds the five genders with the five classes, and the military class is gay.  Each of the Five Elements, Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Ether are abstract representations of everything in world.  Air or Wood, for instance is male, the Scholars, the Yellows, etc.  Water is female, Shamans, Small Browns, etc.  Earth is lesbian, the Ubuntu or Social Business Class, Blacks, etc.  Fire is gay, the military, the Militant Business Class, Whites, etc.  And Ether or Metal is bisexual, the Working Class, the Bi-Military, Big Browns, etc.  The Five Elements form a five-pointed star which is used in many political symbols in government worldwide.  And the military is classified as either gay or bisexual.

People who are very much against gays are usually bisexual in various degreesmany subconscious, but some conscious.  For how could real men volunteer to sleep all together in the same quarters, shower together in the same shower room and express esprit de corps unless they were openly gay, knowingly bisexual, or subconsciously bisexual  Republican Senator Larry Craig is an example of a person who vehemently opposed gays and created many policies that discriminated against them, only to involuntarily reveal later that he was a closeted bisexual, after an undercover police officer caught him in the act and arrested him for soliciting gay sex in a St. Paul restroom.

Moreover, allowing openly gay soldiers in the military would uphold human rights. Roughly 1,000 men and women, says Time magazine, including some with critical skills like the ability to speak and translate Arabic  are booted from the military each year for being gay.  The Dont-Ask-Dont-Tell (DADT) policy is a law that prohibits closeted gays, lesbians and bisexuals in the military from disclosing their sexual orientation or becoming openly gay.  It also prohibits openly gay military applicants from being recruited.  Anyone violating this policy will be discharged.  This is a clear violation of human rights.  People have the right to work in an environment regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity and gender or sexual orientation.  This is what America is made of.  This is why it exists.  And the DADT policy is a clear desecration of what America stands for.

Instead, America needs to replace it with the Military Readiness Enhancement Act (HR 1283).  There is currently a petition sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign and targeted at the U.S. House of Representatives to support HR 1283.  This act prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, allowing all able-bodied Americans to serve the country and to strengthen all military branches.
Furthermore, the DADT policy is a hole in the pockets of the American government and U.S. taxpayers.  Representative Jim Moran (Democrat) says that more 13,500 service members have been discharged since the implementation of DADT.  He noticed that the number of discharges fell during times of war and increased during peacetime.  This shows that during wartime, Moran says, DADT is not being pursued aggressively because ones orientation has nothing to do with their ability to fight (CNN).  Instead, much needed multi-lingual servicemen, doctors, mechanics and other important members of the armed forces are being ejected without any truly valid reasons, costing taxpayers millions of dollars in recruitment, training, operations and other expenses.  In February 2006, a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission concluded that it cost taxpayers at least 363 million dollars from 1994 to 2003.  And it will certainly cost more as long as it continues throughout the years.

President Obama also pledged that he will repeal DADT.  Last month, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman introduced a bill to repeal the ban in behalf of Obama. 60 votes are needed to repeal DADT and just like the newly-passed health-care bill, Republicans are on the attack.  Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina, a Republican on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, objected to the repeal of DADT, but the battle continues.  Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on the other hand, supports Obamas promise.  He has appointed a committee to brainstorm on how to implement the repeal.  The proposed plan is scheduled to be finished by the end of the year.  Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, agrees with Gates and said that it is the right thing to doI cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.  For me, personally, it comes down to integrity -- theirs as individuals and ours as an institution(Fox News).  But Gates admitted that in the end, no matter how much the Pentagon studies it, Congress will have the final say and approval of any new policy.  While Republican Sen. John McCain was disappointed with Gates remarks, Democrats will still fight this issue in Congress just as they did with health-care reform.

In the end, America cant survive without repealing DADT.  The American economy is in shambles because of too much waste.  Congressmen also have to waste their time tackling issues such as these that shouldve been solved easily in the past had they been less prejudiced.  By repealing DADT, America will win.  Most of the EU have already eliminated forms of it, and many other countries are following suit.  Its the right thing to do.