CNN Poll: 62 Percent of GOP On Board
A CNN poll out Monday reminds us why DADT repeal is embraced by all political stripes, with broad support from Republicans (62 percent), Democrats (more than 80 percent) and Independents (63 percent). Last week a poll from the Center for American Progress registered 56 percent of voters in House and Senate battleground states backed open service. These and volumes of other polls show Congress could, without an outcry from their constituents, put DADT repeal in the FY 2011 defense authorization.
02-23-10 By Paul DeMiglio, Senior Communications Manager |
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I cannot help but wonder what this legislation will do in regards to those individuals who were discharged as a result of DADT and the potential for reaccession into the services, or at least towards discharge upgrades. If the military is going to seek a delaying action in implementing DADT (assuming the policy is ended this year), I think it is safe to say that the JAGs are going to fight to prevent those with Under Honorable Conditions (General) or Under Other than Honorable Condition discharges to upgrade the characterization or reenter the services. Despite the fact that these discharges were for homosexual admissions or homosexual acts, I have little hope, and little effort to assist these people. I hope this is incorrect, but knowing a few people that received general discharges for either homosexual admissions or homosexual acts, I have no faith that the benefits and service they were denied will ever be corrected, either by law or by the efforts of SLDN.
Bill on February 23, 2010 at 07.59 pm
If Congress weren’t such political cowards, they would end DADT today simply following the polls. But, that is not even necessary. Most allied armies have already ended their own versions of DADT, and in many cases is was not voluntary—their armed services put up the same objections that the US armed services uses. But, change was often forced by external forces, without “a year of study” or getting the OK from the majority of soldiers. To everybody’s surprise, ending their DADTs was a non-event. The President, DOD, and Congress should study history and end DADT immediately. Necessary details needed for the change would fall into place without difficulty. I refer the ignorant to Nathaniel Frank’s “Unfriendly Fire,” Chapter 6, “Gays in Foreign Militaries.”