If the walls around us were crumbling and we needed to be saved, would you reject assistance from someone solely because he or she was different? If you think about it, that’s the general idea behind Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – that someone who is openly different cannot help or save you. Not only is this policy incredibly prejudiced, it also encourages a decrease in military enlistment.

How can a military boast so much pride yet hide so many secrets? The soldiers march and salute to the sky, but how many do so under the condition that they are essentially living a lie? How does our military operate when it, too, is living a lie? Homosexuality is alive and well in the world, and here in America, we must accept it and get used to it. It’s not going anywhere, but if the government keeps up Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, our level of national security could surely go somewhere.

We’re now in an age where many young people don’t care one way or another about sexual preference. Children are growing up in a world where people are openly gay and it’s normal to see two men walking down the street hand in hand. So what’s going to happen if DADT is not repealed by the time these children grow up? Our guess is that the majority of them will think the military is an erroneous joke and will avoid it at all costs.

And what happens 15 years down the road when the United States suffers from a lack of military enlistment? A big fat “I told you so” is what. People are already so fed up with this policy that if it exists even a decade from now (which let’s hope is not the case), the only people serving in the military will be incompetent homophobes.

We at the Journal are through with the whole anti-gay thing, seriously. It’s 2010. People dye their hair blue. People live alternate lives on computer systems. People tattoo every inch of their bodies and call it art. People do lots of things that weren’t done in the good old days of conservative America. People are gay, and they’re open about it, and they should be. Deal with it.