The US policy
banning gays from serving openly in the military ends on Tuesday, and the
Pentagon says it is prepared for the change. President Barack Obama last
December signed legislation to repeal the policy known as "Don't Ask,
Don't Tell," which had been passed by Congress and signed into law in 1993
under then-President Bill Clinton.
The abrogation of
the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy shows the improvement on the treatment
towards people who are homosexuals. I feel that the primary purpose of “don’t
ask” is to allow homosexual people to serve in the military. But the policy
proved to be little protection, and since the, about 14,000 men and women have
been forced out of the service under “don’t ask.” Government should not take
the soldiers’ jobs away just because they are gay.
I read from a
newspaper that Former Defense Undersecretary Bernard Rosker said in an
interview that the end of “don’t ask” won’t necessarily lead gays and lesbians
in the military to come out. Rostker led a landmark 1993 Rand study on
homosexuality and the military, and he said he found that even in other
countries where it was allowed, men and women in the armed forces tended to
keep their sexual orientation to themselves. “We found that for most people it
is a private matter,” Rostker said,” and the like to keep it that way. The
reason may be that homosexual people are not being accepted by all the people,
thought the views of people are changing. They may have an inner battle at the
time they found out that they interested in people who have the same gender.
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