Gays in the Military

Right-wing "military" activist Elaine Donnelly, fresh off of her critically disastrous appearance before the House Armed Services Committee, is again ...

Unfortunately, the coterie of cautious centrists being touted by the Obama campaign as short-listers for the vice presidential nod are hardly up to the task of taking on the Republican attack machine.

Retaining good straight troops to the tune of $150,000 with Arabic skills may be an investment worth making, but in the long run, that platoon of lesbians might just turn out to be priceless, too.

The very same arguments that were made in 1948 against mingling the races in the military were made Wednesday against mixing homosexuals and heterosexuals the way they mix in the real world.

Try as they might, opponents of open service, led by Elaine Donnelly, were unable to crack the Members' belief that the time for change has long since passed.

While the 2008 presidential campaign heats up with an unexpected twist seemingly every day, it's nice to know that there are still some predictable el...

Sam Nunn will not be on the ticket with Obama. But if he would like to be offered the job of Secretary of State or Defense, he has to tell Obama that he supports repealing DADT -- and he has to mean it.

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has cast a shadow over the careers, lives and families of the service members I have come to know and respect, many of whom are LGBT.

Our country's ban on gay troops is counter-productive and foolish. It has ruined careers, ruined lives and put an unacceptable burden on the men and women who wear our country's uniform.

What is often overlooked is that the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy was supposed to be a way station on the road to full acceptance of homosexuals in the military.

WASHINGTON — Congress should repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law because the presence of gays in the military is unlikely to undermine the ab...

At the very time the Pentagon is actively recruiting to keep its numbers up, soldiers who happen to be openly gay are being treated as though they are convicted felons and unceremoniously booted out.

With Don't Ask, Don't Tell, gays and bisexuals are not free to be themselves in the armed forces of their country. In addition to everything else that this law is -- costly, inefficient, unfair -- it is disgraceful.

It would be nice to think that gay serviceman Leonard Matlovich's battle ended the struggle against the discrimination of gays in the military. Instead, it started it.

The loss of talent to the military, and the country, is staggering -- language specialists, helicopter pilots, doctors, intelligence officers -- all dismissed because they happen to be gay.

When Secretary of Defense Robert Gates failed to recommend Peter Pace for a second two-year term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff one year ago...

Nunn's call for reconsideration of the gay ban is a welcome development, but his proposal for a Pentagon study is behind the curve, especially given the military's history of burying studies.

We do not need another Pentagon "study." We need men and women at the top to lead us to what is clearly right and explain to their constituents why Don't Ask Don't Tell must go.

Sen. Nunn is recommending a "review" of the policy he helped fashion fifteen years ago, but he is not indicating whether his own views have changed.

A small group of Americans, both gay and straight, are fighting and dying in this war, and they are feeling its consequences. The rest of us are changing the channel.

People in the military do not have 1st Amendment rights, though we are supposedly dying in Iraq so you can have those rights.

SEATTLE — The military cannot automatically discharge people because they're gay, a federal appeals court ruled in the case of a decorated fligh...

SEATTLE — The military cannot automatically discharge people because they're gay, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in the case of a decor...

The military can ill afford to lose a single man or woman. Nonetheless, the law -- a law passed by Congress -- requires that if that man or woman is openly gay, he or she must be discharged.

At a time when the military is fighting two wars simultaneously and recruiting standards are being lowered, why is Congress still not allowing gay military personnel to serve openly?