'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal: Gay Military Spouses Still Won't Receive Equal Benefits

Mother Jones:

Don't Ask, Don't Tell is dead. But the fight for equality in the military is nowhere near finished. While the official end of DADT at midnight on Monday is a historic turning point, unresolved issues with the Defense of Marriage Act and military regulations mean that servicemembers and their partners in same-sex relationships will continue to suffer second-class treatment.

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Comments

[lambdin1]

12:08 PM on 10/05/2011

Yes we all will be second class citizens for quite some time to come. Change has to be on the outside of the military too. DADT only stopped the witchhunt. It did not stop bigotry! I've watched this for 6 decades and there has been more improvement in the last 10 years than in the previous 50! Getting rid of DOMA will help. But we've got to change minds. One at a time!

[truth be told again]

10:23 AM on 09/21/2011

Yet another reason the DoMA must be overturned.

[Thaag Tidestalker]

05:51 AM on 09/21/2011

It is a fact that the military panders to straight white Christian males. Period. I spent 6 years in active duty service as a woman realizing this. It's been that way for hundreds of years. Just as with the admission of women and non-whites, the admission of the openly non-hetero is going to meet with resistance and archaic rules-mongering.

[Ioan Lightoller]

04:13 PM on 09/21/2011

Fanned and faved. Those who oppress are slow to give up their privilege, so I do expect discrimination...I also expect the powers-that-be to deal with it.

[Atwill]

08:41 PM on 09/20/2011

It is wrong to deny gays in the military anything their straight counter parts have. if gays have a marraige license from a state where it is legal, they need to have ALL the same benefits.

[Ioan Lightoller]

04:14 PM on 09/21/2011

Amen to that! Why should ANYONE who helps to defend this country settle for second-class citizenship.

[eyecon]

12:10 PM on 09/20/2011

GOP politicians will continue to pander to our domestic Taliban with promises of reinstating the gay ban. As quickly as these people became relevant they can become irrelevant if our society ever wakes up and realizes what we have allowed them to do these past 30 years.

[truth be told again]

10:25 AM on 09/21/2011

Not just "the gay ban [in the military]", but in our very lives!

Montana GOP Policy: Make Homosexuality Illegal

Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/18/politics/main6879243.shtml