McHugh Says View Has Changed on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

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Source: Roll Call

Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.), President Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of the Army, is keeping mum on his position on the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy barring openly gay people from serving in the military.

But the former ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, who voted in favor of the policy in 1993, said Thursday that a lot of things have changed since then, including his views.

“I have no interest as either a Member of Congress or as ... secretary of the Army to exclude by some categorization a group of people otherwise qualified to serve,” McHugh told Roll Call.

He noted that the Armed Services Committee has not considered the policy “in any formal way” since 1993. In the meantime, “certainly, the recruiting-age population’s views have changed on that whole matter,” he said.

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[Mythsaje]

1. Now there's an interesting perspective.

Good.

[Soylent Brice]

2. wha?? did i just catch a whiff of progress on DADT??

[shadowknows69]

3. I don't like this choice, McHugh represents the right wing of Upstate NY

And he must be a darling of the military industrial complex because he's poured billions of your tax dollars into Fort Drum, one of the War on Terra's main cannon fodder breeding grounds.

[shadowknows69]

4. So, Representative McHugh will be introducing the legislation to change it then?

Or has his views not changed quite that much?