“We righted a wrong,” said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the independent from Connecticut who led the effort to end the ban. “Today we’ve done justice.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/us/politics/19cong.html?hp
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Gay men and lesbians are already serving in the US military. Many of these young men and women enter the military because it's their only option. The repeal of DADT might indeed make their lives a little better. But I have my doubts considering the continuing dismal treatment of women in the US Army. What is most troubling for me is the increasingly accommodationist tone towards U.S. military projects from the LGBT lobbyists and their many supporters.
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