"DON'T ASK DON'T TELL": MEDIOS A FAVOR DERROGACIÓN LEY "DADT"

Scuttle ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

New York Times/ EditorialPublished: May 21, 2010

VER AL FINAL LA OPINIÓN DE ANDREA ...

A prime opportunity is at hand for Congress to repeal the repressive “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that has drummed out more than 13,000 capable members of the military simply because they are gay men and lesbians.

President Obama and the top Pentagon brass have called for repeal, and House strategists plan a floor fight to attach repeal to the big defense budget bill that comes up this week. Election-year nervousness is evident among some supporters, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi braced them last week with a flat prediction that don’t-ask “will be a memory by the end of this year.”

The speaker did not detail the process, but an amended defense bill generated by the House would be a good start. Senate opponents would have to come up with a supermajority to delete repeal from the measure.

Some lawmakers who favor repeal want to wait for a Pentagon study due in December about how — not whether — to carry out the change. The obvious legislative solution is to make repeal effective after the study is in the hands of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He has already ordered the end of such abuses as third-party accusations that are not made under oath, or that are made with malice and intent to harm a good soldier’s career.

The Pentagon study reportedly will survey more than 300,000 people, including service members and families. Possible changes focus on whether the military code will have to be amended to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians, and whether their partners will receive family benefits. These questions are subsidiary to Congress’s obligation to enact repeal, which opinion polls indicate the public clearly favors.

“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is a culture war scar on military honor that finds the nation alone among the major Western allies in denying qualified gay men and lesbians the chance to defend their country. Military generals from Britain, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Israel were in Washington last week offering assurances that ending the gay ban became a nonissue once their services were justly integrated.

“There were concerns in the late ’90s of gay men walking across the gangplank in feather boas and high heels,” retired Lt. Cmdr. Craig Jones of the British Navy related. “That just did not happen.”

Congress has the chance to strike down similar absurdities in the American mind and military by enacting repeal to end a shameful injustice.

ANDREA CON LA "PANCARTA": Como muchos otros medios el NYT toma una posición relativamente liberal, describiendo ley DADT como una "injusticia vergonzosa". ¿Peroy tal derrogación será una acción que elimine el tremendo discrimen contra homosexuales en uniforme? Eso está por verse...

ENTIENDO QUE MIRANDO EL TEMA "POR ENCIMITA":

• La derrogación "DADT" es una caja de Pandora que le llamo : "DEL LOBO UN PELO"

1. La tal derrogación carece del lenguaje específico- ANTIDISCRIMEN, lo cual técnicamente hablando, crea una puerta a la uniformada para seguir su curso de siempre...el discrimen.
2. La tal derrogación no se pondrá en vigor hasta que "Colón baje el dedo"yyyyyyyy
3. Tal derrogación espera por el famoso "reporte" de la Comisión del Depto. de Defensa: basado en UN SUPUESTO consenso de opinión dentro de la uniformada. Defensa opina que sería ofensivo cambiar la política DADT porque los militares sienten que su opinión realmente no importaría y crea desánimo. Y sobre el reporte, ya podemos especular el resultado: ¡ NO A TODO !
4. En resumen, tal derrogación puede devolver el poder a la uniformada a decidir COMO perpetuar solapadamente lo mismo que queremos derrotar: el discrimen rampante contra los homosexuales uniformados.
5. Hay que preguntarse QUIENES estarían realmente a cargo de crear una nueva política en la uniformada: clérigos y líderes FUNDAMENTALISTAS UNIFORMADOS: Nada más y nada menos que "monos con navaja en la mano derecha"...
6. Si creemos que con tal derrogación se elimina el problema; pues se crea OTRO problema aun más grande, más conflictivo, más solapado e irrevesible por años venideros.
7. Realmente sorprende la respuesta de "complacencia" de todos los grupos activistas homosexuales; ¿será que no se nada de leyes, ni procesos, ni de momentos para oponerse o qué? veremos....yo seguiré con la pancarta oponiéndome a la "derrogación de DADT-As is" en buen español: "Del lobo un Pelo".