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According to advocate.com the survey asking 400,000 active and inactive troops about their opinion on LGBT living, working, and fighting along side them has been made public.

While reading through the survey I can see were it has “derogatory and insulting wording, assumptions, and insinuations” through out it. It asks questions about if one feels ok with showering next to someone they believe to be LGBT. That’s just as bad as saying, do you believe the saying “don’t drop the soap?”. 

I am also in agreement with the question, since when does the Pentagon survey people for their opinions on policies? Is this just a way to placate the public? And who says that the results will be accurate? I know that sounds like I think the whole thing is a conspiracy, but we can’t trust in people blindly. We have to look at all the possibilities. 

This survey may show the people in favor of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that troops don’t mind working with LGBT people.  That is a small chance but we can always hope that the government will be the bigger person and go on with removing the policy whether the survey says one thing or another about LGBT people working in the military.

There has also been interviews with service member and their families about the same subject. The Pentagon lawyer Johnson has been interviewing people since February. After the interview they can go on a website, enter a pin number and continue what they have to say about LGBT people working in the military. This is used to see people’s opinion in a “real context”. I don’t know what that means exactly but it sounds like a lot of money going towards something redundant. 

In hopes that this leads to something, I support the survey and urge anyone who is reading this to check it out for themselves.

~ Chardonnay