Moral panics over gay soldiers proved unfounded when policies took effect

Evidence

A year has passed since I began writing this book. Some of the twenty stories from the Introduction that were in the news in the fall of 1993 have disappeared. The Pentagon’s policy on gays and lesbians has not led to the ruin of the armed forces. And atrocities in Brazil have not drawn much ink lately. Instead, we are hearing of atrocities committed in Argentina during the “dirty war.” — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3759