DADT

Kevin Drum notes — via Matt Yglesias — that there’s a really overwhelming margin for junking the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law that’s kept out gays out of the military. A recent Gallup poll found that 69 percent of all respondents supported a person’s right to serve in the military regardless of sexual orientation, up [...]

Don’t miss this excellent and heartfelt post from Brandon Friedman of VoteVets, the progressive veterans’ organization, going after the 1000 retired generals and admirals who want to retain the military’s ban on service from out gays and lesbians.
The fact that 1,000 long-retired generals are frightened of gay people is not the modern military’s problem.  Their [...]