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24 Jul 2008 06:25 am
About Time
by Chris Bodenner
Yesterday, for the first time in 15 years, Congress held a hearing on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Time revisits the debate:
Recently, conservatives have made the argument that if Americans
like Stephen were allowed to serve openly, young heterosexuals from
conservative families would stop enlisting. ... But the Zogby poll has an answer to this: only 2% of respondents
said they would not have joined the military if gays were allowed to
serve openly. That translates to a loss of about 4,000 service members
per year — the same number of gays and lesbians who decline to
re-enlist because of "Don't ask, don't tell" or who are discharged
under the policy. That calculation means keeping or repealing "Don't
ask, don't tell" would be a wash in terms of numbers. It forces a
question we have postponed for 15 years: Do we want a military where
Americans are not forced to lie about their most important emotional
bonds?
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