For the Military To Be All That It Can Be We Need LGBTQ Soldiers | Opinion
caused people to lose so much more, including their lives.Anger, fear, and hate are rising again against the LGBTQ community, and this time, it's harming the military's ability to do its job.
After DADT's repeal, the myth that queer people would destroy "unit cohesion" disappeared, and the military affirmed what society learned over and over throughout history: discrimination is what destroys us, not the people who are being discriminated against.As a bisexual woman, I know that policies against queer people do not make us disappear, they determine how much we risk by being open about our identity.
Consider the accidents of history where the military paved the way for civil and queer rights. Yet everyone who joins the military isn't there with an agenda to win rights.
We are just like you, trying to do our jobs. There are no atheists in foxholes, as the saying goes, but there are bigots. And their delusion about who is fit for service is far more dangerous for our country than any person they hate.As a minister, I must remark that discrimination against LGBTQ people comes at a time when more and more biblical scholars and religious leaders share that homosexuality as we know it today isn't condemned by the Bible.
