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?Why Is the Military Polling the Troops About Gays??

By ADF Alliance Alert

Mark Thompson writes at TIME: "When Harry Truman wanted to integrate blacks into the U.S. military in 1948, he simply ordered it done. When the Navy wanted women on ships beginning in 1978, it commanded its admirals to do so. When the Clinton Pentagon decided women should become fighter pilots, it issued orders telling the military to make it happen. For generations, the military mind-set has been, If we want you to have an opinion, we'll issue you one. So why is the Pentagon asking troops how they'll feel if forced to serve alongside openly gay comrades?"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).