Tell Senators that “Enough is enough” of DADT
In a post this week on The Hill’s “Congress Blog,” Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) urges the U.S. Senate to catch up with the House – as well as an overwhelming majority of the American people – and vote for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”:
Several months ago, the House of Representatives passed a defense authorization bill that finally, at long last, put us on a path to full repeal of this appalling policy. But yet again – we’ve seen it so often during this Congress – the Senate, through the use of the filibuster, has engaged in mindless obstructionism.
Let’s look at the scoreboard, shall we? The following people believe ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ must go – the President of the United States, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a solid majority of the House of Representatives, and 75 percent of the American people, according to a recent poll.
Rep. Woolsey understands that getting rid of this discriminatory law recognizes the sacrifices of our veterans and promotes the guiding principles of honesty and integrity that are the bedrock of military culture:
I can’t think of anything less American than asking young men and women to die for our freedoms, and then not extending them those very same freedoms. It’s incomprehensible to me that we would ask our troops to live with secrets and shame about the core of their very identities. And how can an institution as devoted to truth and honor as the U.S. military enshrine and embrace a doctrine that instructs people to lie?
Click here to read the full text of Rep. Woolsey’s post.
It’s time for all Americans who believe in the freedom to serve to speak out now, especially if your senators are among the 43 who voted for the filibuster against DADT repeal. Write to these 43 senators today and tell them that playing politics as usual is no way to honor our veterans.
10-06-10 By Jeremy Wilson-Simerman, Legislative Manager |
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