Leonard Pitts from the Houston Chronicle did an article on how the "don't ask, don't tell" rule of the military is on it's way out. Apparently the Obama administration has been working on finally putting to rest the principle that all homosexual personnel had to hide their sexual orientation to serve our country. I thought this was supposed to be America: Land of the Free? So why do some have to hide who they are to serve and protect it?
In the article he goes on to further explain the process it would take to actually put this into action and that he thinks the principle will be gone soon but we need to carefully plan before hand to prepare for the repercussions. The main thing that really caught my eye as I'm sure most other peoples, is the key evidence that he provides in his article; " It is worth noting that the 70 percent of American adults who support allowing gay service members to serve openly includes majorities among some rather unlikely demographic subsets: 53 percent of conservatives, 57 percent of regular churchgoers, 60 percent of Republicans." He says that these numbers, "They speak to that gathering force, that growing sense that "don't ask, don't tell" is doomed. The unthinkable feels like the inevitable." This is the one flaw in his article, he doesn't provide where he got this information from, people have to take it on faith, take his word for it, I doubt he's lying but if he would have included the source it would really have bigger impact on people because of its credibility. But if it is true with numbers like these it's not hard to see what's about to come.
He goes on to say that, "Change, like babies, has this way of coming, ready or not." All and all, I ultimately think Leonard Pitts did a great job informing us while still providing his reasonable and logical opinion , and to be honest I don't think he's far off on what he thinks is going to happen.
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