House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said he doesn’t plan to try and reinstate “Don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT), the former ban on gays serving openly in the military, if Republicans were to take the Senate and Mitt Romney won the White House in November.
McKeon and other Republicans were opposed to repealing DADT when the Democratic-controlled Congress passed it in 2010, but McKeon said Thursday that he didn’t see a reason to re-start the fight over it.
“We fought that fight, and I think right now it’s more important to get the things that our warfighters need,” McKeon said at a breakfast roundtable with defense reporters, in response to a question about whether he would try to reinstate it under a Republican-controlled Congress and White House.
Seems McKeon has realized that allowing gays to serve openly in the military hasn’t compromised military effectiveness or unit cohesion.
H/t: Jennifer Rubin.
Your are so stupid.
They say they are going to repeal it. Many of them are on board with this.
Why would you risk to trust them.
It’s done. There is no going back – and all the hype from the uber-right hasn’t transpired. And as McKeon said – We need to get our military what they need, not waste time and money rehashing something that is old news.
Why would you risk re-electing Obama when you know how disastrous he will be?
Probably the most important aspect of repealing DADT within the military is there haven’t been any horrible incidents, assualts, scandals or mass resignations so-far. Plus, considering the swelling attention to heterosexual sexual assaults and misconduct in the military, I suspect the even the entrenched members of the Uniformed and Political Leadership initially-opposed are realizing that “the gays” aren’t the ones with “zipper-control issues” undermining the chain of command and unit morale.