Boot 'don’t ask, don’t tell,’ honor all who want to serve (Ft Worth TX Star-Telegram)

[struggle4progress]

... It is a law that is out-of-step with the times and now with public opinion.

The Star-Telegram Editorial Board has said for years that those who wish to serve and are qualified should be allowed the honor of showing their loyalty and duty to country by joining the armed forces if they so desire ...

This is one issue where the public has moved ahead of its elected leaders and many of its military brass ...

"Don’t ask, don’t tell" is a bad law, and every day it is allowed to stand is another day injustice prevails ...

http://www.star-telegram.com/225/story/1703211.html

The ole cow town is changin, I think

[Toasterlad]

1. "if he is serious about fulfilling his campaign promise and doing the right thing"

"...he should be pressuring Congress on this issue even as he pushes on others on which he has called for change."

How very true. And yet he continues to do nothing but give speeches.

[struggle4progress]

2. Obama won’t repeal ‘DADT’ on his own (18 Sep 2008)

By The Associated Press
09.18.2008 8:32am EDT

(Washington) Democrat Barack Obama said if elected president he would not try to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on his own.

Obama said in an interview to run in gay publications Thursday that he wants to work with military leaders to build a consensus on removing the ban on openly gay service members in the armed forces. He said that wouldn’t be accomplished by attaching a signing statement to a military spending bill, a process that President Bush has used to set other military policies ...

Obama also declined to commit to have his attorney general support a lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal recognition of same-sex marriages and gives states the right to refuse to recognize such marriages. Obama said he’s not sure the 1996 law would be overturned by the courts and he prefers a legislative solution.

http://www.365gay.com/news/obama-wont-repeal-dadt-on-his-own/

Maybe he's working with military leaders to build a consensus on removing the ban on openly gay service members, just like he promised last fall

[Toasterlad]

3. "I Will Repeal DADT" - Barack Obama - 10/10/09

[AtheistCrusader]

4. If he removes DADT without any other supplemental changes

the military will be free to conduct witch hunts for gay servicemembers again...

This needs some additional protection, so the removal of DADT doesn't expose people to persecution in the 'suspected' cases.