Via Americablog:

This article from Army Times.Com

They talk mainly about how discharges due to finding out about gay personnel are hurting the military.  That is also significant…but this paragraph stood out to me:

Overall, the number of discharges has gone down in recent years.

“When we’re at war, commanders know that gay personnel are just as important as any other personnel,” said Nathaniel Frank, senior research fellow at the Center. He said that in some instances commanders knew someone in their unit was gay but ignored it.

Call me crazy, but if someone is valuable in war…they are no less valuable in peace.  If someone is a good soldier in war, they are no less a good soldier in peace.