Editorial

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
The don’t ask don’t tell policy is how the military functions when it comes to homosexuals. The policy is that a solider is not asked about his or her sexual orientation or is the soldier under any circumstances required to state or share it among anyone, as well as engage in homosexual acts.
The don’t ask don’t tell policy is now under fire by homosexual activists around the country. President Obama wants congress to look at the policy again and see if there can be a better compromise.
If you give an inch they take a mile. The don’t ask don’t tell policy was enacted in the first place because men and women who were serving in the military had to declare what their sexual orientation was when joining the armed forces. Upon declaring that they were a homo-sexual they were either discharged or now allowed into the military in the first place. The don’t ask don’t tell was the compromise for the homo-sexual community; they now have the right to serve their country so long as they keep their dirty secret to themselves.
An argument against the don’t ask don’t tell policy is that by allowing homosexuals to openly serve gay their would be no compromise to duties nor the mission over seas. This appears not to be true because there has been more people coming out saying they are against it than anything else.
The fact of the matter is that with two wars going on America’s main concern should be winning those wars. The meetings or conversations about the don’t ask don’t tell policy should be thrown out and replaced with questions like “Are our brave men and women over seas currently getting what they need?” or invest the money that would go into finding a worst policy (it does costs time and money to rewrite policies as well as politicians precious time) into better care for veterans.
Write your politicians and demand that they throw the don’t ask don’t tell policy discussions on the back burner while we have troops currently in a combat zone.