Repeal the Gay Ban

Posted April 13, 2005, 12:08 p.m.

You all know my opinions on homosexuality (and if you don’t, see A Compromise on Gay Marriage), so it shouldn’t surprise you that I agree with this Post editorial. Whatever your or my personal opinions on the morality of homosexual activity, precluding somebody from service to their country on the basis of sexual orientation is stupid. It is especially so in a time of war.

I join the Post in their call for an end to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuality. Being openly gay does not make somebody any less of a patriot, or any less an honorable member of the United States armed forces.

Repeal the Gay Ban (Washington Post, free registration may be required).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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