The nation's top uniformed officer testified this morning that he supports allowing gays to serve openly in the military. Admiral Michael G. Mullen is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. If he'd said the opposite — if he'd said it would be wrong and detrimental to our military, those who oppose Gay Rights would now be arguing that his word was definitive; that if he says that, no one else's opinion matters. Since he said what he actually did say, you can tour the right-wing message boards and see him being trashed as a sell-out, an idiot who's out of touch with his own troops, and maybe even a closet fairy, himself.They're outraged because they know it's over and that we will soon see the day when the policy is amended. (An amazing number of them, by the way, think it was a ban on homosexuals serving in the military. No, it wasn't. It was just a ban on being honest about it.)
According to the Gallup Poll, repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is favored by 69% of the country. It's favored by 86% of Liberals but even by 58% of Conservatives. It passes by 60% of those who say they attend church on a weekly basis. America has not been in favor of this discriminatory policy for a long time. We should have gotten rid of it years ago.