"Let us marry. Let us serve. For we, too, are Americans."

Beautiful.

Don't Ask Don't Tell is a military policy, so I don't oppose it in that sense - I'm not in the military, so it's really not my concern. Applied to any other organization, it's a discriminatory policy, so I view it as a discriminatory policy in the military as well. As such, I feel the military has no place to recruit alongside other organizations at high school or college events, since those schools have the right to ban institutions with discriminatory policies, which Don't Ask, Don't Tell is. It's very simple - they can enact whichever policies they like, as long as they are subject to the same rules and regulations outside of the military world that all other organizations are.

I haven't read it but I would really like to!

I will simply say this, my husband, my father, father in law, uncles (on both sides), grandfathers, grandfather-in-law, heck, even my grandmother-in-law served in the military and most of them, not all, are conservative re: sexual orientation. However, they could have cared LESS if their brother or sister in arms was gay or lesbian and almost all of them knew people who were. My family is large, multi racial and multi religious, serving from the Revolutionary War to modern Iraq and no one has ever expressed bias towards a gay comrade.

I agree with dont ask dont tell, it protects everyone involved.

Both Clinton and Obama are in favor of repealing the policy, McCain and Huckabee are in favor of keeping it.

"would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability"