Majority approves of gays in the military

I think it’s safe to say that opponents of gays serving in the military are officially out of arguments.

A 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.”

This dovetails nicely with a Zogby poll of U.S. troops released about a month ago.

A new poll reveals that 73% of military members say they are comfortable around lesbians and gays. And 23% say they know an active duty soldier in their unit who is lesbian or gay…. More than half — 55% — of the troops who know a gay peer said the presence of gays or lesbians in their unit is well known by others. […] “Those who defend the law have argued that openly gay personnel harm military readiness. This research highlights the absurdity of such a hypothesis,” said C. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

A majority of American civilians are ready to scrap “don’t ask, don’t tell”; a majority of American troops are fine with serving alongside gay servicemembers. Remind me, what arguments are left on the other side?