The good news is that the Pentagon just announced that they will no longer investigate service members’ sexual orientation based on anonymous tips. In other words, to the degree possible they don’t intend to enforce the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law. Of course, they still have to act on cases where a service member reveals that they are gay or lesbian themselves. The bad news is that the Pentagon review on abolishing the policy entirely isn’t required to provide their conclusions until December 1st, which is after the midterm elections. That may be by design, but I think it works against the Democrats. They would do better to fulfill that campaign promise before the midterms. Perhaps we can have the repeal in the queue, but the obvious place for it would be in the must-pass Defense Appropriations bill and that bill is normally the first appropriations bill to pass, which I would expect to be before election day. Thoughts?
Pentagon Relaxes DADT
