Thoughts on DADT from The Atlantic
source: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/12/joe-lieberman-civil-rights-hero...
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An excerpt from an article, 'Joe Lieberman, Civil Rights Hero,' written by Andrew Sullivan for The Atlantic, found at: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/12/joe-lieberman-civil...
"These men and women deserve our support. Period. All of them. It's inconceivable that in wartime, we should be making any discriminatory exceptions among those who fight for us, that we should honor any of them less than the rest, allow any criterion or characteristic to distract from the simple fact that they are American servicemembers - not gay or straight ones or black or Hispanic or white ones, not male and female ones, but Americans, in the US uniform, whose identity as soldiers begins and ends there."
"These men and women deserve our support. Period. All of them. It's inconceivable that in wartime, we should be making any discriminatory exceptions among those who fight for us, that we should honor any of them less than the rest, allow any criterion or characteristic to distract from the simple fact that they are American servicemembers - not gay or straight ones or black or Hispanic or white ones, not male and female ones, but Americans, in the US uniform, whose identity as soldiers begins and ends there."
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