As of 2010, appx 2.3 million Americans are either active military (appx 1.45 million) or in the reserves (appx 850,000), and it’s been estimated by various reputable sources that the number of people in America who are members of the LGBT community are appx 4% (12 million people), so assuming that the military typically doesn’t attract the LGBT community, and assuming maybe only 1 in 100 of LGBT persons want to be soldiers (20,000), on the low side of this equation, there are appx 20,000 US soldiers who are either gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

Of course, that’s strictly conjecture on my part, as nobody has a clue what the true numbers are, but there’s at least 1, and she’s an Army General (Brig. Gen. Tammy S. Smith), and if you support the troops, you should support ALL of them as long as they are doing the rightful, legal thing as Americans & soldiers, so since being LGBT soldier is not a crime (anymore), if you support ALL the troops, you should be supporting soldiers who are LGBT.

Most people don’t think about these things — they prefer to think in terms of “black & white” and ignore what they can’t get their arms around intellectually, but since the world is filled with shades of gray, looking for black & white answers in our world is a faulty premise, logically speaking.

So expand your mind and imagine the possibilities.  If you believe there is a God, certainly since He (or She) gave us a mind to think with, surely He/She hoped we’d use it every now and then to see how ignorant we are.