While discussing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gays in the armed forces, Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace said homosexuality is "immoral" and equated it with adultery. Some political observers say when Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services committee, criticized the general for his remarks, it indicated that Congress may revisit the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Several Democratic presidential hopefuls favor a repeal of the policy, while at least a couple of leading GOP candidates want to maintain the status quo. Do you think it's time for Congress to reconsider the "don't ask, don't tell" policy?
In the Arlington National Cemetery, on the gravestone of a Vietnam Veteran, it is written: "When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
Attitudes some straights have toward gays seem the last respectable prejudice. Gays may be natural enemies because of the personal revulsion many straights feel about their behavior. Sex, let's face it, is dynamite, and we should recognize the power of involuntary revulsion just as we do the power of involuntary attraction. What is all-important is to understand the source of one's feelings and not to act in ways that hurt others.
