Talking point #1
"Straight Troops Must Shower with Gays"
According to this gem, when you're Gay in the military you're not only labeled as immoral but that you're also assumed to be a rapist with impossible ninja-like espionage skills.
Talking point #1
"Straight Troops Must Shower with Gays"
According to this gem, when you're Gay in the military you're not only labeled as immoral but that you're also assumed to be a rapist with impossible ninja-like espionage skills. A warning like this says that Gay soldiers, after repealing DADT, will spontaneously become sexually rampant despite the minimal time allotted for community showers where you're supposed to, "get in, get clean and get out." Solid snake couldn't accomplish this level of stealth.
DADT allowed more Gays to serve in the military than before (see TP #2) - if you're paranoid struck now I would remind you that this isn't anything new. Gay military personnel are often ridiculed and would risk the social stigma of making those around them uncomfortable were they to act pervy in a community shower. Why would someone risk being discharged for harassment by proposing an uninvited sexual favor?
Talking point #2
"Don't Democrats know that DADT was passed under Clinton?"
The Uniform Code of Military Justice passed in 1950 under Harry Truman and barred Gays from the military; It had the most restrictions that Gay soldiers have ever faced when it came to enlistment and minor suspicion could be enough to boot you. Bill Clinton compromised on DADT after being elected as a pragmatic decision against the Uniform Code - Gay soldiers could serve as long as they did not disclose their sexual orientation. Repealing DADT is going to allow Gays to serve openly because the law from the Uniform Code no longer applies.
Talking point #3
"Repealing DADT will bring back the draft"
Fear is the corner in which The Right Wing are backed into when there isn't an argument in their favor. Now they're convincing Americans to oppose the repeal of DADT by creating an imaginary issue - the draft. This video, made by the same group who produced America at Risk, is an advertisement against the repeal of DADT which tags in bright yellow writing along with a sound clip you could only recognize from Lost which says, "be careful what you rally for because Uncle Sam may end up drafting you." I want to remind everyone that this was an ad placed during a time where military recruitment is thriving from the recession.
Everybody doesn't support the draft; from deep Southern peons to the richest 2% of Americans - it's not coming back anytime soon. When the Confederates imposed a draft it didn't work out too well for them either. You know - "A rich mans war, a poor mans fight"? - that's from the wealthy slave owners who could send either $500 or an able bodied person (aka slave) in their place during the Civil War. Rich people would rather buy their way out and wouldn't send their kids or themselves and if lowly pro-Southern Confederates knew their history, neither would they.
Talking point #4
"The Military won't stand for this"
How much of the military is against the repeal, is the question and given the specific evidence - most of them are okay with it. According to this study (pdf) taken by the Department of Defense, 70% of the military support the repeal of DADT.
Greg Sargent from the Plum Line says "84 percent of Marine combat corps combat arms units who said they'd worked with homosexual service-members in the past found the experience either very good, good, or neutral," striking out a key talking point that opposition is stronger in the Marines.
I am going out on a limb here but my guess is we won't see any military coups from this one.