Red, White, And Blue..What About Lavender?

Red, White, and Blue...what about lavender?

I'm here to define and analyze the age old issue of gays in the military. It has always been a mind boggling issue for me. I don't understand how there are so many aspects that make up a person, and there is only one that our government chooses to focus so heavily on. The most prevalent problem that arises in conversation of this issue is that, apparently, every homosexual person is a sexual predator without inhibitions and will pounce on anything of the same sex that has a heartbeat. Any human being with a decent head on their shoulders will know that this simply is not true. One's sexual orientation no more defines them in their entirety than does a heterosexual's lifestyle define everything about them. The law banning homosexuals from serving in the military is ludicrous. The basic factors of equality, unity, and necessity all point in favor of a non-discriminatory military selection.

"...all men [people] are created equal." The first person to utter these profound and astounding words was Thomas Jefferson. I wonder if he knew just how much weight his words would carry over the span of time. In a sense, this phrase was set in stone when it was written in along with our Declaration of Independence. The people who sat down together so many years ago to plan out our freedom knew that this was of the utmost importance. Why, then, can we not grasp this concept in this day and age. With all of our technological, environmental, political, and social advances, how is it possible that we seem to have taken such a large step backwards when it comes to equality? If we take a trip into the past we see numerous incidents of inequality being practiced politically nationwide. However, we also see that there has been an end put to them as well. For example, the African-American slave trade was very obviously a prejudicial practice. Then the Emancipation Proclamation was put into effect and African-Americans were free to live their lives as all human beings should be. Another instance in which inequality has been practiced nationwide is sexism. Stereotypes are still flying and the age old question of why a woman earns less than a man doing the same exact job is yet to be answered, however we can see progress. There is now a law against discrimination in the workplace (and various other places) based on a persons gender. One last instance is the battle for the legalization of gay marriage. Gay rights activists have been working their hardest to break the ground for gay marriage. We've