In an article, Most US troops, families say gays OK, author Anne Flaherty states that according to an internal Pentagon study, most U.S. troops and their families do not support "Don't ask Don't tell" policy and favors rights to the gay military personals. Not to mention a significant cost of survey was $4.5 million that shows no or very little evidence of methods Pentagon used in conducting this study.
Although I'm a firm believer of everyone is created equally but it's hard to believe that the Pentagon conducted survey depicts the true results and the voice of the whole nation rather just the opinions of troops and their families. An issue pertaining to racial profiling is such a controversial topic that requires an extensive research on conducting survey that includes but not limited to random selection calling, diverse age groups selection, and avoiding any bias questions supporting one belief over another.
Another concern that arises from the Flaherty's article is, that why is our nation as well as national government relying on surveys to value each other’s rights and accepting everyone's beliefs even if it's against one owns. A hetrosexual person seeks for his/her rights but forget to give gay's theirs? No one is perfect and holds the title to pass their judgment, but hetrosexual public is perceived to be so perfect that they can say it's wrong for the homosexual military personals to be attracted to same sex gender?
So let's ask us we honor, respect and support our troops but not the ones that are gay? Their lives, beliefs, values, and morals are just as precious as any other hetrosexuals but we as a nation really needs to think deeper and ask do we support all of our troops? Do we need to give them their rights as they are protecting ours endangering their lives in combat?
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