Now that I've started this you might be thinking, "Oh jeez, here goes another person with another standard rant about how this is unconstitutional and how the government needs to hurry and repeal it, and blah blah blah." Except you would be wrong! (If you weren't thinking that, kudos to you)
My stance on this . . .
Yup, that's right. The United States government is going the wrong way. We're supposed to be stopping discrimination not letting it stay in place for as long as possible. The real problem I'm having with this situation is not that it's taking so long to repeal, but the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to remove a stay on the decision of an appellate court. A decision that could(and most likely would) repeal the policy. When news of this first reached me, my reaction was quite . . . annoyed.
The Supreme Court is supposed to help solve the problems and get things taken care of. When they allowed this lower court to continue to stay their decision, they allowed a discriminative policy to stay in place for a longer amount of time. A policy that requires replacements to be made, therefore costing quite a bit of money.
It's not only about how wrong it is, it's the fact that it's costing the United States more money. We're already in debt; why waste more money dismissing PERFECTLY able-bodied soldiers because they happen to be homosexual? It's a waste of US services, money, and time(as well as being idiotic).
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ReplyDeleteBlake Benson’s December 3rd, 2010 blog post, titled: "So...WHY is this still in effect again?" regarding the military’s mystifying “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, presents a couple of excellent arguments in favor of this unfortunate convention's removal. He mentions the painfully obvious reality of it as a bigoted and antiquated practice that is bereft of any practical application. I am in complete agreement with this assertion, as it does seem random that an individual who is fully qualified, physically capable and desirous of serving his/her country should have to endure enforced secrecy and fear of removal based on a totally unrelated topic, like who he/she finds sexually attractive. Blake expands beyond his contention of moral outrage, however, and mentions a relevant practical error inherent within “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: the frittering away of precious government funding on replacing “outed” gay soldiers. Blake states: “We're already in debt; why waste more money dismissing PERFECTLY able-bodied soldiers because they happen to be homosexual?” Good question.
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