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Entries Tagged as 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Esprit Decor

Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 27th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

Just saw Dana Milbank’s column about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell hearings this week — in which the homophobes who testified apparently made such hilarious fools of themselves that pretty much everyone in the room was embarrassed and appalled. And as Milbank puts it,
Though there’s no expectation that Congress will repeal “don’t ask, don’t […]

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Tags: Politics · LGBT · Don't Ask, Don't Tell · U.S. Congress · Homophobia

Alan Simpson on Peter Pace and Alan Turing

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 15th, 2007 at 5:50 am

Surprisingly, in the furor over Gen. Peter Pace’s comment that homosexuality is “immoral,” the most effective rejoinder I’ve heard so far comes from a former Republican senator, Alan Simpson:
As a lifelong Republican who served in the Army in Germany, I believe it is critical that we review — and overturn — the ban on gay […]

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Tags: News · Politics · LGBT · Don't Ask, Don't Tell