United States Senate Repeals “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

“I don’t care who you love,” Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, said as the debate opened. “If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn’t have to hide who you are.”

The repeat of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that was adopted during the Clinton Administration has passed a Senate procedural vote. If successful in the House, we’ll finally be rid of this archaic and cartoonish pretension towards sensitivity that not only constitutes a very real danger to our sense of justice and civil liberties, but also to national security.

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