'Gaiety Ensues' -- DADT comic challenge
Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:37 PM JST
Richard Stabone sends the best response so far to our challenge of rewriting a page from the Army's 2001 instructional comic on Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
And it's not just the best so far -- it's excellent. Gauntlet thrown, people.
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Since the mid-nineties the U.S. military has had a ridiculous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy towards gay military service personel. It is illegal to be openly gay in the military. President Obama during his campaign promised to push congress to reverse this hypocritical, prejudice based, ban on gays serving in the military. Presently there is a military commission studying the possible impact of this change of policy on the arm services. The commission study is not scheduled to report back to congress before the end of the year. This issue is similar to racial segregation in the army which was officially ended in 1949, but in practice remained until well into the late seventies. Anti-gay prejudice bias is based upon ignorance and plain old fashioned stupidity. It should be ened in the military immediately. The military is still expelling service members who either "come out of the closet" or are outed by others. Congress needs to abolish the "Don't Ask D'ont Tell" law now. Why should anyone have to lie about their personal identity? It is the right and moral thing to do. Gay service personel are echoing Martin Luther King's famous question "why should we wait?"
John H. Armwood
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