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I'm going to post one of the poll questions here to see RF's outcome.
See all resultsA new poll from Harris Interactive found that 55% of Americans think gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military.
By comparison, 19% of the 2,337 Americans polled said gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve "only if they keep their sexual orientation a secret," and 18% said they should "not be allowed to serve in the military at all."
The survey, conducted online between Jan. 11 and 18, also measured American attitudes toward the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't tell" policy, which prohibits the military from asking personnel about their sexual orientation, but allows homosexuality to be a cause for discharge from the military.
Forty-six percent of respondents said they oppose the policy, unchanged from a Harris poll in 2000, and 36% said they favor the policy, compared with 34% in the previous poll. However, the policy is supported by far more men (43%) than women (29%). And among political parties, Republicans are more likely to support this policy (51%) than Democrats (25%) or Independents (31%), while 18% of Americans remain undecided about the policy.
The poll also asked whether Americans agree with comments by John M. Shalikashvili, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who wrote in a recent New York Times editorial that if gays and lesbians served openly in the U.S. military, they would not undermine the efficacy of the armed forces. Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they agree with his comments, compared with 31% who disagree.
I'm going to post one of the poll questions here to see RF's outcome.