Study Finds Gays Do Not Undermine Canadian Military Performance

[Very_Boring_Name]

I know its dated, but I just found this and found it pretty interesting

http://www.palmcenter.org/press/dadt/releases/study_finds_gays_do_not_undermine_canadian_military_performance

18 April 2000 - SANTA BARBARA, CA. A new 44-page study of gays and lesbians in the Canadian military has found that after Canada’s 1992 decision to allow homosexuals to serve openly in its armed forces, military performance did not decline.

The study is the most comprehensive academic study of homosexuality in a foreign military ever compiled and reflects an exhaustive inventory of relevant data and research. Its title is "Effects of the 1992 Lifting of Restrictions on Gay and Lesbian Service in the Canadian Forces; Appraising the Evidence".

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Key findings are as follows:

* Lifting of restrictions on gay and lesbian service in the Canadian Forces has not led to any change in military performance, unit cohesion, or discipline.
* Self-identified gay, lesbian, and transsexual members of the Canadian Forces contacted for the study describe good working relationships with peers.
* The percent of military women who experienced sexual harassment dropped 46% after the ban was lifted. While there were several reasons why harassment declined, one factor was that after the ban was lifted women were free to report assaults without fear that they would be accused of being a lesbian.
* Before Canada lifted its gay ban, a 1985 survey of 6,500 male soldiers found that 62% said that they would refuse to share showers, undress or sleep in the same room as a gay soldier. After the ban was lifted, follow-up studies found no increase in disciplinary, performance, recruitment, sexual misconduct, or resignation problems.
* None of the 905 assault cases in the Canadian Forces from November, 1992 (when the ban was lifted) until August, 1995 involved gay bashing or could be attributed to the sexual orientation of one of the parties.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Of coure it did not

neither did in Israel, England and a slew of other countries.

There will be some one sided conversations between ranking sergeants and officers and lower people on the totem pole... about conduct and all that. But even those will be far less than people in the service expect.

I know I had one of those talks... with one of my older Medics... It was not the nicest day at work but we all had a clear understanding of expectations, and in the end him and our young guy who was gay ended up being good friends,. No, not immediately, but it did happen

[Bigmack]

2. But ... they are only Canadians....

What do they know about holding a world-wide Empire together?

Real MANLY Empires need really MANLY Storm Troopers.

Gays in the service may weaken us and make us not MANLY enough to try to subdue the entire fucking world and bend all those brown people to our MANLY wills.

...oh..... wait... maybe ending DADT isn't such a bad idea.

Never mind.