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Meehan targeting 'don't ask, don't tell'
"Representative Martin T. Meehan, a Lowell Democrat, said he plans to hold congressional hearings early next year of the House Armed Services Subcommittee, which he is likely to chair, on a bill that would allow homosexuals to serve in the armed forces."
It would be an interesting chain of events, indeed, should a bill allowing homosexuals to openly serve actually pass in the House and Senate. Universities that have long used the ban on gays in the military as an excuse to keep military recruiters off-campus will find the rug ripped out from underneath them.
But beyond that, it would be a solid step towards the legalization of gay marriage -- for how can you deny gay-marriage to people who are fighting to defend the life and liberty of their fellow citizens?
While the ban on homosexuals in the military has been defended as necessary to keep enlistment numbers and morale high (it's arguable that many potential soldiers would not enlist in the military if they felt they would have to share their quarters and showers with the dreaded fag, but think of all the macho-lesbians who'd be knocking down the military recruiter's doors!), with the Democrats in control of the House and Senate, I think the military is already experiencing less than stellar morale anyway, so you may as well kick it when it's down and see if it gets back up on its feet again.
When you stop to consider the dangers that our military men and women presently face in Iraq and Afghanistan, I find it difficult to believe that a couple of size queens in the showers is going to faze more than just a very few.