Military Bloggers Come Out In Favor Of DADT Repeal

"Today, it appears inevitable to us that the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy and law restricting those displaying open homosexual behavior from serving will be changed."

Call me ignorant, but repeal of DADT won't sanction 'open' homosexual behavior, just like open heterosexual behavior isn't allowed. I've never heard from my friends in the military that you can start giving oral sex or shagging in the open as long as it's with someone of the opposite sex. This repeal would only prevent someone from being discharged for something they do in private with another consenting adult.

Ms. Sladja is naive and obviously hasn't read the stuff at sites like blackfive much, and the postings of folks like "Jimbo" Hanson.

If she did, she'd know that these folks are lying, and just trying to con the naive.

I'm retired military, and trust me, they don't want repeal, they're just playing for time, like the brass and the Republicans, hoping to delay the repeal of DADT until after the November elections, when Republicans would have a better chance of blocking it forever.

Do it now.

Waiting until the military comes up with a plan to do something that everyone knew was going to happen under Obama is silly.

It would have been like telling Harry Truman to wait on integrating the military until the bigoted and racist folks in the military had time to come up with a plan for integration that was to their liking.

It never would've happened, and we'd still be waiting.

If it's the right thing to do, and it is, do it now.

And tell the bigots in the military that don't like it to either salute and follow orders, or get the hell out.

The less bigots in the military the better.

...Just because your hetero doesn't mean your a good soldier...

A little long for a t-shirt but not a bad slogan.

Yup, I think Mambo is right. The milbloggers statement is actually the opposite of what it might seem at first glance. Which is more likely? They all changed their minds at once? Or, they all agreed that this is a useful tactic to move the decision past the election(s)? Doh.

All the same, it would be nice to see them held to their position before the House goes Rep.

I've served on military staffs, and I know how they can slow walk what they want to slow walk, and expedite what they want to push through.

And, sadly, fundamentalists have made real inroads into the military (the Christian Embassy, etc.).

It's gotten to the point where folks who aren't really very religious pretend to be (going to prayer breakfasts, making their subordinates go, always inviting the chaplain to speak, etc.), because they think it looks good to those above them.

No matter though.

It's simple.

Since everyone agrees "it's the right thing to do," and "it's about time," repeal DADT, and implement it when the good folks in the military come up with their plan.

In 90 days max.

I mean, they came up with the plan for Operation DESERT STORM in less than six months, and nobody knew that was coming like the repeal of DADT has been for the last 18 months, if not sixteen years.

This whole concept of "taking the time to get it right" reminds me of what Thurgood Marshall said when he was litigating for the NAACP, fighting for civil rights.

The same type of bigots trying to stop the repeal of DADT today were trying to do the same thing to civil rights legislation back then, saying "lets's not rush this, let's take our time and do it right."

Marshall said, "the Emancipation Proclamation was signed almost 100 years ago. We think 100 years is long enough."

Thurgood Marshall was right then, and the same point would be equally right on this subject today.

Civil rights are civil rights.

You don't need a plan to implement them.

And the military already has the UCMJ to enforce them.

Any talk of needing more time is just a "delaying tactic" and part of "the deception plan" as they say in the military.

As the bigots like to say, it's time to "git 'er done."

This:

"Today, it appears inevitable to us that the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy and law restricting those displaying open homosexual behavior from serving will be changed. And yet, very little will actually change, . . . Homosexuals have always served in the US Military, and there have been no real problems caused by that."

and this:

"There are "a bunch of issues that need to be worked through if it's gonna be the non-problem I think it's gonna be, . . . "Let the service chiefs figure out how to do this, pass legislation that mirrors that and I think you'll have a much less painful transition."

Seem to contradict one another. Incoherent if you ask me.

"Do it now . . . It would have been like telling Harry Truman to wait on integrating the military until the bigoted and racist folks in the military had time to come up with a plan for integration that was to their liking."

Yes.

"Civil rights are civil rights. You don't need a plan to implement them."

And,yes. This echoes the incoherence of the choice quotes above from the article.

This delay request is BS. How easy was it for all the military leaders to figure out how to go from UCMJ to torture...about 5 minutes. Hmm, this is one of the strangest and BS laced articles that has come from poser's lately.

The repeal of DADT will be effective as soon as the ink dries and all the crap about why to delay will need time is just more smoke and mirrors.