Barbara Starr defends homophobic DADT survey

CNN's Barbara Starr defends polling soldiers if they want to shower with "open" gays. Listen carefully as Drew Griffin challenges her and she becomes quite defensive in justifying the 'survey'. Truly despicable.

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News & Politics

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• DADT
• Barbara Starr
• homophobia
• Drew Griffin

[RCSVirginia]

Below should be DADT, not DAD.

[RCSVirginia]

If you would like to see some of the brave young gay men who are serving in our military, openly now with the repeal of DAD, you can view these YouTube videos:

"It gets better - Gay U.S. Navy Sailor" by Caduckster

"It Gets Better a Marine's story" by Ansteve1

"My Coming Out Story - Military Man" by x1Prince

"Telling My Dad That I Am Gay--Live" by AreYouSurprised

[RCSVirginia]

@RavenReverend

You said it, and you said it well!

[dworthin84]

uhhh a dadt survey is not inherently homophobic, for all you know most troops could answer that they don't care about serving with openly gay members

barbara starr seemed objective in her reporting, didnt say anything one way or another

[adg135]

@brendenoguin honestly good for you for not being afraid to show who you are! :) keep being who God made you to be :) im glad ur fighting for ur rights :)

[bndkllr2]

mattschol,

this survey is flawed because it assumes that soldiers like YOU, who think that gay troops will be "free to express their attraction to other men in their unit" are capable of providing reality-based answers. Clearly you are NOT. What repealing DADT will do, is allow the 66,000 gay men and women in the military to stop lying everytime they are asked what they did last weekend. Imagine if you had to lie and make up stories every day to hide your wife and kids from the army.

[TheJdbaird]

Interesting comments. Since when did the military become a democracy?

[mattschol]

@AdamSunnyFlanders Well the problem is that without dadt the gays in the military will be free to express their attraction to other men in their unit, this will cause problems. I suspect this survey will confirm that having an openly gay man in a unit will be problematic. The repeal will happen, hopefully things will be done to mitigate the inevitable conflicts. It's just foolish to ignore the inevitable sexual victimization.

[AdamSunnyFlanders]

@mattschol Actually the practical reality is that there are already gay men and women serving in the military and there is very little abuse. In fact, it's heterosexual men who most often commit such abuses against heterosexual women in the military. Military women are five times more likely to be raped by a fellow male soldier than they are to be seriously injured or killed by an enemy soldier. The concerns about gay men are just as unfounded and the repeal is inevitable.

[mattschol]

@AdamSunnyFlanders No, i would not be uncomfortable showering next to a black man. Those concerns were unfounded, and thus black men are welcome in the military. I just think there is going to be a hell of a lot of abuse if this gets overturned. The armed forces have enough abuse problems as it is. We can't close our eyes and shut our ears and act like everyone will be cool and nice. You are worried about offending people, I'm worried about practicality.