Gay? Get Out.

Today, the Supreme Court refused to review the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, a relic of the Clinton administration (while campaigning for the 1992 election, Clinton had promised to eliminate any barriers to service for homosexuals). This really is outrageous. I had a chance to meet and talk to a gay Iraq veteran in one of my classes during fall semester. When he talked about DADT, it was visibly painful for him. Imagine putting your life on the line for your country, knowing full well that you could be dishonorably discharged at any given moment without compensation, benefits, and stripped of any merits you may have earned will serving. For the record, 14 countries have no barriers to miltary service for gays (blessed Netherlands was the first in 1974). The Obama administration seems content to let issues of equality take a back seat to running GM and our financial institutions.