It's so crazy because I was just talking to Legend about this same issue... and then I talked to My ST last night about it... I'm talking about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ... I guess I never understood the whole policy and I was just curious about it so I started talking about what it really was and what it meant...
Reason #8 Why I Heart Obama...
I got a link from Legend today about a statement released by Obama's spokesperson. Obama will end the 15-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy that has prevented homosexual and bisexual men and women from serving openly within the U.S. military...
its so sexy... I can't stand it...
For those that don't know what "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is may be a little confused right now. Basically, while Clinton was in office there was a lot of hate crimes and "witch hunts" that effected accused homosexuals in the military. Clinton wanted it to be a more tolerate system...
well... it didn't really work out like that... Collin Powell (who had been a soldier for most of his life) was put on the job to make it acceptable for gays to be in the military so how, some way... However, Powell had a very very very hard time finding anyone that was interviewed to agree that it was okay to be gay in the military... not one person... but he did find that people stated if they didn't know the other person was gay, they wouldn't mind and would be okay with it... so after a year or so of research they came up with the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
Today, you are no longer asked or questioned about your sexual orientation BUT if you are openly homosexual or have a domestic partner or anything that can be investigated you will be discharged... so a lot of people including me, feel that it is still discrimination.
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