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one year after the repeal of don't ask don't tell the first academic study of
the military's open service policy has found what louis
absolutely no negative consequences whatsoever big surprise yeah really
shocker this study was published monday but the palm center which is a research
branch of the williams institute it found a number of things including no
overall negative impact on military readiness
no impact on unit cohesion remember when that was the favorite talking point of
the right it will affect unit cohesion no effect
no it no effect on recruitment no effect on retention nor no effect on morale
but obviously it be corrupts the moral fibre country
the fiber has been corrupted
one soldier told the authors of the study
that in the initial period after the repeal he kept hearing derogatory
anti-gay language of some form in his unit yet when he confronted them and
spoke out about the behavior in terms of leadership and professionalism their
conduct improved incredible because you no longer have to hide your sexuality
you can actually call people out for using anti-gay slurs
and because they're like oh wow this is a person who's serving with me and i
respect women i value them i'm not gonna do that anymore it seems that
shocker
this is actually improved the situation in the military
yeah i don't see i don't see how the opposite could happen obviously it's an
improvement