Somebody finally sits up and takes notice!  Wonderful!  Over at Eschaton, echidne says that it is an odd juxtaposition that our new congress may well repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, at the same time Massachusetts takes the right to marry away from its gay and lesbian citizens.  "Equal for war but not for love?" She asks.  Good question.

In fact, it is precisely to prevent people from asking that question, that we are not allowed to serve.  Did you think that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was really about military readiness?  Have some second thoughts please.  It is because the sight of openly gay people fighting for, and dying for their country, would cause people to raise those kinds of questions that the bigots have been fighting so bitterly to prevent us from serving. 

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has nothing to do with national security.  It has nothing to do with close quarters contact on the battlefield and all the other shibboleths the religious right keeps raising.  It has exactly zero to do with troop moral.  It is about preventing gay equality.  It has always been about preventing gay equality.  Nothing else.