[lbo-talk] Senate votes to repeals DADT - Get yr war on gay boys 'n girls

[Percival Myers]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
> So basically gays won the right to be cannon fodder for the empire.  What is
> there so progressive about it to celebrate?

While I also question the relative worth of simply and only repealing
DADT, I do so for different reasons.

There was an earlier, WW1-era ban on gays in the military. DADT
modified that earlier policy. But doesn't repealing DADT cause the
earlier ban to take force once again? Does it depend on the wording in
DADT and how it modified the earlier ban? It looks like two steps
forward, three steps back to me.

Percy