Yes and no. Since serving in the military is a job that some people find highly desirable (because getting shot at wouldn’t normally be that attractive but the government has gone to some lengths to make it so), it becomes one of those due process issues, where the burden of proof is on the government to show why people should be excluded. And the burden of proof wouldn’t normally be particularly high except for the historical record of irrational animus toward gay people. So when you say, “The military has legitimate concerns about unit cohesion, morale, good order and discipline that it must explore thoroughly before introducing openly gay individuals into our troops.”, I invite the readers to roll their eyes and chuckle sardonically. As in, what TRiG said.

TRiG.