I'm still not convinced about DADT repeal. I know it's essentially happened, but there's the whole other part where it doesn't really take affect until the military has thought about it a little bit more and figured out how to go about it.
It really shouldn't take more than to rewrite some passages in whatever written guides/codes/manuals they use to make their rules clear to the people in the military. The rules aren't changing at all as far as members of our military should be concerned. The only difference that anyone should really notice is that more gay people are able to be out and honest about themselves, and that's just good for everyone.
I can't imagine that should take too long to figure out, and then you actually train people. I don't know if it would be a sensitivity training class or a video. I suppose it would more likely be a DVD these days, but still.
Really, all it should take is for everyone to sit down and reread the rules rewritten to include reality as concerns sexual orientation and individual gender recognition. The rules aren't changing, they're just recognizing everyone now.
And I know how a Republican can spin some shit, and I fully expect enough of them to band together and try to make this study/implementation process take two years while their brothers and sisters in the party continue to bombard Obama with obstinacy and rhetoric. I should hope that the American people finally begin to recognize the shenanigans on both sides and push us in the direction of a third party that isn't spoiled by the big time guvment jobs.
I know it's a done deal, and I'm not concerned for the actual repeal of DADT as much as I am the hurt that could be done to too many people if this thing continues to drag on. What you have to understand is we're gay, and we're not going back in the closet, and we're going to keep being out and open so that we can one day close the useless and finally empty closet because no one is going into it anymore.
