Don't ask, don't ignore.

"A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support." Thomas Paine could've told the United States government this now, and they'd still stare at him like a deer in headlights. 


It is hard to ignore rationality when it stares one in the face. With the United States' Senate recently deciding to sweep the 'don't ask don't tell' policy debate under the rug because grumpy Republicans think this isn't the right time for it, we are clearly stuck in the past. We are fighting two wars halfway across the world, and our recruiters are killing themselves, and regular soldiers as well, at rates never before seen in the United States Army. We have been fighting longer now than we did in Vietnam, and the military claims it needs soldiers. If there are willing citizens ready to take up arms, why is the US government so unwilling to let gay soldiers in? It is so ignorant to think that gay Americans are any different from any other American. It is furthermore infringing on many civil rights laws. Homosexuals have no physical or mental defect prohibiting from doing the job of a soldier, yet they are disqualified from joining the US military because of something that they were born with, something biological. Now obviously this same rhetoric could be used to justify gay marriage, but that requires another post at another time attacking the religious fanaticism behind that deplorable debate. It just is counter-intuitive for the United States Senate to ignore the facts, and the abhorrent civil law violations that this policy evokes. The people of the United States need to let their elected Congressmen know that this is not right and something needs to be done. We cannot let the minds and wallets of a few determine such crucial matters as these.