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Changed the title from History to History of Homosexuality in the American Military because that is what is reflected in the content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.58.212.8 (talk) 03:22, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Public Opinion and the Military Poll

"An Army Times poll of military members only found 25% in favor of allowing homosexuals to serve openly" - Why is this in the public opinion category?

Out of every opinion referenced and expressed in this article, I would think it should be headlined, as it is a poll of individuals actually affected by the policy. Galopined (talk) 20:45, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See the Zogby poll. Also the Army Times poll was not conducted by an academic/social research entity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.58.212.8 (talk) 03:09, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Biased Article

The entire article is biased towards allowing homosexuals in the military.

Lacarids (talk) 17:41, 15 February 2009 (UTC)lacarids, February 15, 2009[reply]

Problems with the article

I have several problems with this article:

1) There is very little documentation. 2) It is heavily biased towards allowing homosexuals in the military. 3) The "History" section is a history of homosexuals in the military--not a history of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. 4) It says in the Intro that the policy was authored by Colin Powell, but says that Charles Moskos authored it in the History.

Lacarids (talk) 22:30, 15 February 2009 (UTC)lacarids February 15, 2009.[reply]

Other countries

Why is it that in the section that talks about other countries, places that disallow gays from openly serving in the military (Russia, for example) are not talked about? That seems highly biased to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.106.237.249 (talk) 03:13, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is so, and I properly tagged the articles as "POV". --Pgecaj (talk) 17:05, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Queer:Argentinien und die Philippinen beenden Homo-Verbot im Militär (german)

All members of EU permit homosexual people to serve openly in military. And now since 2009 also Argentinia and Phillipines allowed homosexual people to serve openly in military 82.149.186.76 (talk) 09:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is a case of "sofixit"... In any case, I'm taking care of it by moving the other-country detail to the proper article. —EqualRights (talk) 19:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discharge

What kind of discharge do these people get?--76.174.34.216 (talk) 06:33, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]