The incoming White House spokesperson says the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy's days are numbered. Click here to read more.
Interesting that this is the first Obama policy that will have something to do specifically with gays and lesbians. Is is that he and his people are smart students of history? After all, when military racial barriers came down in World War II, that was the trigger for many following racial and cultural changes ... school integration, the ending of laws preventing blacks and whites from marrying, new voting laws, and the power that black people felt to challenge the ways things had always been done ... from Rosa Parks to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to ... President-Elect Barack Obama.
Will this be the reason to legalize same-sex marriages? You can hear the reasoning ... "Gays and lesbians fight courageously and sacrifice their lives for our country ... why shouldn't they be allowed to marry?"
Also ... you have to wonder if this will help military enrollments. The Bush administration has pushed the USA's military forces to ... and sometimes past ... the limit, with how we're stretched so thin in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plus, they're having real trouble finding enough people to enlist these days.
Interesting that this is the first Obama policy that will have something to do specifically with gays and lesbians. Is is that he and his people are smart students of history? After all, when military racial barriers came down in World War II, that was the trigger for many following racial and cultural changes ... school integration, the ending of laws preventing blacks and whites from marrying, new voting laws, and the power that black people felt to challenge the ways things had always been done ... from Rosa Parks to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to ... President-Elect Barack Obama.
Will this be the reason to legalize same-sex marriages? You can hear the reasoning ... "Gays and lesbians fight courageously and sacrifice their lives for our country ... why shouldn't they be allowed to marry?"
Also ... you have to wonder if this will help military enrollments. The Bush administration has pushed the USA's military forces to ... and sometimes past ... the limit, with how we're stretched so thin in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plus, they're having real trouble finding enough people to enlist these days.