NO ONE WAS GAYER
Oct. 21st, 2010 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogI mean no one.
In related new, I’ve been holding off posting anything about that recent court decision regarding DADT, partly because it’s no secret how I feel about gays in the military (if anything, we need more of them), and partly because the decision didn’t amount to a full-on repeal of DADT. My take is that until it’s actually full-on repealed, there’s really no change. Indeed, an appeals court stayed the ruling while I was typing this.
In between the first ruling and the appelate ruling, though, the Pentagon evidently seemed fully prepared to give up on DADT. Which is telling.
Granted, they tried to convince the judge to stay the ruling first. Still, the fact that they let Dan Choi back in is the clearest evidence yet that secretly, deep down inside, most people in the upper echelons are secretly either okay with dropping DADT or are at least resigned to it, though Robert Gates is clearly in no hurry.
But otherwise, maybe it’s a sign that we still may finally be able to progress as a species with this little bugaboo settled – at least once the predicted drop in morale and battlefield performance fail to materialize.
Or not. Because some people are never going to let this go regardless. On the other hand, maybe we can start treating THEM as the problem that needs fixing rather than teh gayz.
Men in uniform,
This is dF
In related new, I’ve been holding off posting anything about that recent court decision regarding DADT, partly because it’s no secret how I feel about gays in the military (if anything, we need more of them), and partly because the decision didn’t amount to a full-on repeal of DADT. My take is that until it’s actually full-on repealed, there’s really no change. Indeed, an appeals court stayed the ruling while I was typing this.
In between the first ruling and the appelate ruling, though, the Pentagon evidently seemed fully prepared to give up on DADT. Which is telling.
Granted, they tried to convince the judge to stay the ruling first. Still, the fact that they let Dan Choi back in is the clearest evidence yet that secretly, deep down inside, most people in the upper echelons are secretly either okay with dropping DADT or are at least resigned to it, though Robert Gates is clearly in no hurry.
But otherwise, maybe it’s a sign that we still may finally be able to progress as a species with this little bugaboo settled – at least once the predicted drop in morale and battlefield performance fail to materialize.
Or not. Because some people are never going to let this go regardless. On the other hand, maybe we can start treating THEM as the problem that needs fixing rather than teh gayz.
Men in uniform,
This is dF
