By: Daniyar Tengelbay
Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/4/8/1651518/-Trump-makes-it-official-Nominates-LGBTQ-hater-Mark-Green-for-Army-secretary-post
American President Donald Trump nominated Mark Green to be an Army secretary. That caused a wave of discontent from LGBT rights protectors as Green is blamed for discrimination of LGBT society. As different states in US have different laws regarding certain issues, in Tennessee Green is opposing LGBT equality and calls the legislation for discrimination of those. Moreover, he replaced Eric Fanning, who was the first openly gay served as Army secretary.
In this occasion, civilians that want to eliminate discrimination oppose the nomination of Green. Which means that those civilians are pro liberal and support those LGBT representatives openly serving. According to Davis (2001), vast majority of male elite officers of US are opposing the gays and lesbians serving openly in military. While the general population is divided in opinions. One could say that attitudes changed and LGBT society is more welcomed to serve. However, there are also supporters of Green, who support discrimination and keep pro conservative views.
One political action committee VoteVets opposed Green, saying that today military is against discriminative leaders and becoming an Army secretary makes him state-sponsored discriminator. Another organization, The American Military Partner Association promoting LGBT in military argue that Army secretary could not be discriminator and LGBT minorities in military need support from him.
Analyzing the recent situation and the development of LGBT issues during the Obama’s presidency it is clear that Obama being a democrat promoted the rights of LGBT minorities. During his rule, there were legalized same-sex marriages and the ban on transgender military service was lifted. However, during the presidency of republicans this is opposite. For example, it is known that George Bush Jr was against same-sex marriages. Thus, there could be an assumption that nomination of Mark Green is the beginning of Trumps politics toward LGBT issues.
As the general attitude towards LGBT is changed in positive way during last decade and the rights of these minorities are promoted more frequently, there could be another assumption that military service is open for LGBT representatives on professional basis. However, there is still open question whether the elite military officers changed their views towards that issue since the research done by Davis even the Pentagon lifted the ban on transgender service in military.
Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/4/8/1651518/-Trump-makes-it-official-Nominates-LGBTQ-hater-Mark-Green-for-Army-secretary-post
American President Donald Trump nominated Mark Green to be an Army secretary. That caused a wave of discontent from LGBT rights protectors as Green is blamed for discrimination of LGBT society. As different states in US have different laws regarding certain issues, in Tennessee Green is opposing LGBT equality and calls the legislation for discrimination of those. Moreover, he replaced Eric Fanning, who was the first openly gay served as Army secretary.
In this occasion, civilians that want to eliminate discrimination oppose the nomination of Green. Which means that those civilians are pro liberal and support those LGBT representatives openly serving. According to Davis (2001), vast majority of male elite officers of US are opposing the gays and lesbians serving openly in military. While the general population is divided in opinions. One could say that attitudes changed and LGBT society is more welcomed to serve. However, there are also supporters of Green, who support discrimination and keep pro conservative views.
One political action committee VoteVets opposed Green, saying that today military is against discriminative leaders and becoming an Army secretary makes him state-sponsored discriminator. Another organization, The American Military Partner Association promoting LGBT in military argue that Army secretary could not be discriminator and LGBT minorities in military need support from him.
Analyzing the recent situation and the development of LGBT issues during the Obama’s presidency it is clear that Obama being a democrat promoted the rights of LGBT minorities. During his rule, there were legalized same-sex marriages and the ban on transgender military service was lifted. However, during the presidency of republicans this is opposite. For example, it is known that George Bush Jr was against same-sex marriages. Thus, there could be an assumption that nomination of Mark Green is the beginning of Trumps politics toward LGBT issues.
As the general attitude towards LGBT is changed in positive way during last decade and the rights of these minorities are promoted more frequently, there could be another assumption that military service is open for LGBT representatives on professional basis. However, there is still open question whether the elite military officers changed their views towards that issue since the research done by Davis even the Pentagon lifted the ban on transgender service in military.
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