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American Bar Association Comes Out Against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe nation's largest lawyers group has has officially come out against "Don't ask, don't tell," the 1993 law that forbids openly gay people from serving in the military. In three separate letters Monday to both chambers of Congress and the Department of Defense, the American Bar Association called for an end to DADT and offered legal assistance in drafting a new policy. "We opposed enactment of this policy in 1993 as establishing a form of discrimination that was not based on the character of the servicemember's contribution to the national defense," ABA President Carolyn Lamm wrote. "The ...
Opinion: Losing Sgt. X, and My Support for Don't Ask, Don't Tell
By not in system - AOL News(March 1) -- A long time ago, when "don't ask, don't tell" became a law, I supported the idea. I was a new infantry company commander at the time, and I was opposed to letting gays serve openly in the military. But not for the reasons one might stereotypically expect. Morally, I disagreed with don't ask, don't tell. But when you're an infantryman, you have to balance moral issues. I thought letting gays serve openly would cost too much, in time and money. I would have to spend time teaching my men not be bigots. The Army would have to spend money prosecuting idiots who acted on their ...
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Discharges Plunge
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 5) -- Momentum is building to let openly gay Americans serve in the military, and Defense Department figures show the number of service members booted out for violating the "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy has dropped sharply in recent years. President Barack Obama pledged in his State of the Union speech to end the policy that began as a compromise between the Pentagon and President Bill Clinton, who wanted to drop the rule against gays in the military. Under DADT, gays and lesbians are allowed to serve if they keep their sexual orientation secret. More than 13,000 men and women ...
Arguing About Gays in the Military: It's So Over
By David Wood - Politics DailyWithin the boisterous, hard-living ranks of enlisted soldiers and Marines, where I spend most of my reporting time, it's been 16 years since I heard anyone argue about whether the military should allow homosexuals to serve openly. And that was only because I asked. I was penned up with several hundred Marines on the amphibious assault ship USS Barnstable County, coming home from fighting in Somalia, and because I knew that back home in Washington, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' had become a Big Issue. ...
Leading Pundit on Gay Rights Sits In on Hearing
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 2) – It isn't every day that the nation's top military leaders testify to Congress in favor of allowing gays to serve openly in the ranks. And so, like countless other celebrities who have made their way up Capitol Hill for a cause, the eponymous host of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" was on hand Tuesday for what she called "great theater," Washington style. Amid retired generals, ousted gay soldiers and the Army linguist Dan Choi, who outed himself on her show, Maddow sat with the other media recording for posterity the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. ...
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