{"id":2314,"date":"2010-05-14T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-05-14T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T15:35:12","slug":"dadt_redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2314","title":{"rendered":"DADT Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, since the petition went up<\/a>, there’s been a bit of churn on this issue.<\/p>\n

CJ Grisham put up a counterpetition<\/a>, asking that DADT not be dismissed, and stating that: <\/p>\n

We urge Congress to oppose any efforts to repeal the law and lift the policy of openly homosexual service in the military. A large number of associated concerns and costs are associated with the repeal, among them housing, legal status in various states, and moral objections from the majority of the force. The policy would also open doors to legitimate objections from polygamists and other groups who would feel discriminated against. The time is not now to consider such actions while our military is at war on more than two fronts.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jimbo – of course- signed both CJ’s petition and recruited me to sign the one I signed. I called him about that, and will let him make his own explanations – I’ll just say that it’s not clear he had his serious face on when he signed CJ’s.<\/p>\n

Simon Owen, over at Bloggasm, did a pretty thoughtful piece on the ‘nuance’ in this discussion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Andrew Lubin<\/a>, a co-signer of the petition I signed (who BTW is trying to raise money to do another embed – go over and donate), messaged me on Facebook and challenged my interpretation of our petition. <\/p>\n

So let’s go back to the petition that he and I signed and look at the last sentence.<\/p>\n

“The US Military is professional and ready to adapt to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell without compromising its mission. Echoing Sec. Def. Gates and ADM Mullen, we welcome open and honorable service, regardless of sexual orientation.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now I don’t know why Andrew (and maybe Jim) are backpedalling from the clear position that sentence defines. I’m not.<\/p>\n

No, I’m not a soldier or a veteran, and so on one hand I get it that my opinion in this argument may be devalued somewhat. But it shouldn’t be, It shouldn’t be because all those soldiers out there? Ultimately, they work for me, and people like me – civilian society. And ultimately they have to function within the boundaries we set for them.<\/p>\n

Now I’m kind of a public supporter of the military in word and deed, so before my uniformed friends blow a blood vessel over what I just said let me point something out to them.<\/p>\n

My kid – the one walking around Afghanistan in battle rattle – doesn’t give a shit about this issue. I’ve asked him. His buddies, asked over a beer, don’t give a shit.<\/p>\n

The 19 and 22 year olds – from all over the country – to a large extent are just flat past this issue.<\/p>\n

It’s time the 50-somethings writing about it were as well.
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Who – really – cares about DADT??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}