Team Travis: LGBT military members must be fearless

Unfortunately I believe we have gone from mistreating certain groups of people in this country over 200 years to my rights are take precedence over your rights. That is not respectful or right. I have to be very careful expressing any opinion these days as I could be attacked and lose my job.

MAJ Byron Oyler "Mistreating" is an understatement.

MAJ Byron Oyler - I totally understand where you're coming from, but the argument goes both ways unfortunately. LGBT people have a right to the same freedoms other people have, and in some areas people have special rights to attack them on the grounds of sincerely held religious beliefs.

If someone used that argument to deny African Americans the right to be served (which they did), and that wasn't tolerated, I fail to see why this should be. There's a lot of evidence to suggest LGBT are born the way they are, just as a black person is born black, and that evidence seems to be building more and more every day.

This is true.

SGT Cynthia Douglas Ybarra That may have been the case not too long ago, however in todays 'politically correct' environment - no one whether 'straight' or not is safe.

Then why comment lol.

For many, there is only one acceptable way to comment on this and if you are not inline with the 'party line,' you get attacked and perhaps lose your job. We are seeing an assault on the First Amendment in my opinion far worse than attacks on the 2nd.

MAJ Byron Oyler Absolutely correct sir. It’s not normal for someone wanting everyone to treat them like a girl when they still look like a boy.