Trapped out of the closet
Over the weekend I heard about two cases of closeted gays in the military being outed by others. It seems to me that if the servicemember isn’t telling, authorities should ignore the allegation. This narrow, more restrictive approach might be a good interim step before lifting “don’t ask, don’t tell”-my guess is that will happen ...
Over the weekend I heard about two cases of closeted gays in the military being outed by others. It seems to me that if the servicemember isn't telling, authorities should ignore the allegation. This narrow, more restrictive approach might be a good interim step before lifting "don't ask, don't tell"-my guess is that will happen around December 2010.
Over the weekend I heard about two cases of closeted gays in the military being outed by others. It seems to me that if the servicemember isn’t telling, authorities should ignore the allegation. This narrow, more restrictive approach might be a good interim step before lifting “don’t ask, don’t tell”-my guess is that will happen around December 2010.
In one case, Air Force Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, an F-15 pilot with 18 years in the military, was outed last year by someone just before a deployment to Iraq, and then was grounded, so decided to come out. “I followed the rules for 18 years,” he said, according to good old Stars & Stripes. “I didn’t make the decision to come out. There’s no reason I couldn’t continue to do my job well.”
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