now you’re asking them to tell?
in an unprecendented move, the military is asking the forces what they think about gays in the military. they’re doing it by electronic survey distributed last week distributed to 400K active duty personnel. it’s unprecedented because they didn’t do this when, say, they were integrating the military or when they were including women and many think it is a way to slow the process of repealing ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’.
senator levin, democrat from michigan and chairman of the senate armed forces committee says that while the survey is unusual, he supports it. the chairman believes that the policy should be repealed but says “I think it’s okay, even though it’s kind of unprecedented…I can understand the resentment, by the way, in the gay community, that this occurs now but not with those other efforts”. the efforts he was referring to were the aformentioned inclusion of blacks and women in the military ranks.
the survey data will be included in a final report on about ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ due to be delived to the president on december 1, 2010.
[washington post, photo of relesased lt. dan choi via bilerico]
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