Reply #13: People like Sam Nunn

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In case you don't know he was the DEMOCRATIC chair of the Senate Armed Forces Committee and he was adamantly, unalterably opposed to letting gays and lesbians serve in the military. Ike Skelton, while not the chair of the House Armed Forces Committee was highly placed and is still opposed. John Murtha, another well placed House opponent. He needed 60 votes in the Senate, to beat a filibuster, and he didn't have 50 votes. That is what is called being forced. It was made abondently clear that the Congress would pass a law banning gays entirely if DADT weren't accepted.