Robert Austin - Very well said. Thank you. 

I am sick and tired of the way people expect everyone
to agree, regardless of how one feels about a
specific war, that the soldiers are heroes.  They are
not heroes.  There is no draft, so every American
soldier has voluntarily signed up to be trained to
murder and they all have the same opportunities as
the rest of us to get educated about the immoralities
of America’s wars and of American behavior in
occupied lands. 

The soldiers are not protecting “our way of life” or
fighting for “freedom” or any of the rest of the
nonsense the government and the media spews.  The are
simply paid mercenaries committing atrocities in the
name of American imperialism.  They should not be
honored.  They should be shamed, shunned, and
imprisoned.  http://theunpeople.blogspot.com/

Exactly, the entirely reasonable proposition of treating homosexuals equally, has been perverted into having the right to join the unholy killing machine of the imperialistic US Military and is being promoted by Progressives such as Rachael Maddow.  And the greater question you point out is ignored.

It isn’t about “equal rights to be killers.”  It’s about the indifference many
Americans have toward violent death as a result of war.

In other words, one would think that people would be more concerned over the
Administration’s policies and actions of war *instead of* the sexual orientation of
soldiers; and yet this is the strange, inverted reality in which we find ourselves.

It isn’t a knock against our troops: Just a general argument against the lack of a
public outcry over bloodshed while we simultaneously concern ourselves with
ignorant positions, such as inhibiting some of our brave soldiers from being
themselves openly (in this case, gay).

That’s my interpretation, anyway.

This is very good.  Be careful what you wish for!  Equal rights to be killers.

Why “terrible”?

I like this one

I love it. This is what equal rights battles have been reduced to in the 21st
century. Making sure everyone has an equal opportunity to slaughter and terrorize
an occupied peoples. We are entering a new age of multi-cultural politically
correct terrorism. Let them drop this backwards rule of “don’t ask don’t tell” but
let’s not pretend that this is some sort of progressive struggle.