Carson Willing To Reinstate Ban On Gays In Military
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Ben Carson says he’s open to banning gays from military service.
Carson appeared on CNN with his new campaign chairman, retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert F. Dees, notes Towleroad.com.
“One of the things that I learned in a long medical career is that you make decisions based on evidence, and not on ideology,” Carson replied. “So, yes, I would be willing to sit down with people from both sides and examine the evidence and make decisions based on what the evidence shows.”
The Pentagon did a year-long study from 2009 to 2010 on the impact that openly-gay soldiers would have on the U.S. military before the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on gays was lifted.
The study found that repealing the ban would cause “some limited and isolated disruption to unit cohesion and retention,” but the negative fallout would not be long-lasting or widespread in the armed forces, CNN reported in November 2010…
“Well, I think the first priority again is cohesion, and the second priority would be that the commander-in-chief listen to the best military advice, and so on a number of these social issues the best military advice has been thwarted and the administration has said, ‘Do this, do this, do this,’ apart from military and defense considerations as a priority,” Dees added.
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