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Huffington Post: A Bad Call in Richmond
By Aubrey Sarvis
Just a week after we celebrated the President's announcement of his support for marriage equality - and his recognition of the sacrifices of brave gay and lesbian service members among his reasons for doing so - we have been reminded that when it comes to honoring the diversity that has helped build this nation, we still have a ways to go.
Twenty years ago, Sen. John Warner (R-VA) led the charge, along with Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA), to keep gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. armed forces. In fact, Warner joined Nunn in belittling the service and sacrifice of gay patriots like Tracy Thorne-Begland, a Navy fighter pilot who testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1992 against the discriminatory policy that Warner was advocating. Mr. Thorne-Begland was right back then to challenge the policy that the Senate Armed Services Committee adopted, and eventually Congress and our country came to agree with him.
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