"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" 15 Years Later

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"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" 15 Years Later
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Jan 23, 2009 at 18:30:00 PM EST

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=9181

Note From Autumn: This is a piece from the SLDN, indicating that Don't Ask, Don't Tell should be repealed within the first year of President Obama's administration. The attached thumbnail/PDF file is for a press release -- it's not the same text as this op-ed, but goes over similar ground. Posted by permission.

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" 15 Years Later

By Kevin Nix, SLDN
www.sldn.org

Some of the conventional wisdom circling around Washington these days is that President Obama shouldn't-or wouldn't-- touch the political hot potato that is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" during his first year or two in office. They point to the shaky beginning of the Clinton presidency when he took up the issue of gays in the military. What the naysayers are forgetting is that 2009 is very different than 1993.