The Pentagon’s DADT Survey’s Five Most Offensive Questions

Before I give you what I believe to be the worst, most unacceptable five questions from the Pentagon’s survey that will be used to determine how allowing openly gay and lesbian servicemembers in will affect our “military readiness,” let me just say that I cannot believe how this thing is worded. Every question could end up on this top five list. I would also like to note that the questions they ask and what they say they are asking necessitates someone to assume many things about other people. If homosexuality were going to disrupt the morale of the unit, this survey did it for them!

Please note:

Throughout  this  survey,  “gay  or  lesbian”  and  “homosexual”  are  used  interchangeably.

Now on to the DOD’s Top Five Worst Questions in the DADT survey:

1. If Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is repealed and you are working with a Service member in your immediate unit who has said he or she  is  gay  or  lesbian,  how,  if  at  all,  would  it  affect  how  often  your  immediate  unit  socializes  together  off-­duty?
2. If Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is repealed and you are working with a Service member in your immediate unit who has said he or she is gay or lesbian, how, if at all, would your job performance be affected?
3. If Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is repealed, how, if at all, would the way your family feels about your military service be affected?

Side note: It is about here that they start asking Military members to compare the repeal of this policy to how they value their pay and allowances, how many years they have completed towards retirement and their own personal economic situation.

4. In your opinion, which of the following are the top THREE factors that enable you to fulfill your mission during combat?

And yes one of the options was

Having only Heterosexual members in the unit

5. Have you shared a room, berth or field tent with a Service member you believed to be homosexual?

There is no, if yes did it affect you or anybody else in the facility?

I will now give you all a bonus, the question I believe to be the stupidest one in the bunch. Not that ANY of them are good.

Do you have any family members, friends or acquaintances who are gay or lesbian, or whom you believe to be gay or lesbian?