11,000+ soldiers who are willing to serve the United States have been dismissed under a law that lacks intellectual integrity, “Don’t ask. Don’t tell.” This includes 800 soldiers with critical skills in languages and medicine.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) is 13-year-old government-sanctioned discrimination. Signed into law by President Clinton in 1993, it bans openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual people from enlisting in the armed forces or continuing to serve if they are outed based on their sexual orientation. This fall openly gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender young adults who are willing to serve will attempt to enlist in the military in thirty cities across the country. When their desire to serve is rejected, young adults will sit-in at the recruitment centers.

I offer that this is valuable work and that policies encouraging discrimination are disgusting.

History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.