Gay People And Their Right To Militarize

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Aparently there's a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to gay people in the military? What's going on? I didn't know we had one of those.

The don't ask, don't tell policy, signed in 1993 by former president Bill Clinton, was implemented as a compromise with legislature which opposed a complete repeal of the prior ban on gays in the military. The death of Seaman Allen Schindler in 1992 brought the issue of gay servicemembers to the forefront. Established under the premise of privacy, discretion and protection, the policy bans gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people from serving in the military and prevents military officials from asking probing questions or pursuing investigations of soldiers suspected of being homosexuals. Any servicemember that openly reveals their homosexuality through words or actions are discharged from service.

More reading.

Anyways, Obama's battling this, and I hope he wins. I mean, I don't really go for the military, I'm a more peaceful guy than what I envision the military would allow me, but at the same time I can see that this is discrimination.

dis⋅crim⋅i⋅na⋅tion
  /dɪˌskrɪməˈneɪʃən/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [di-skrim-uh-ney-shuhn]
–noun
1. an act or instance of discriminating.
2. treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
3. the power of making fine distinctions; discriminating judgment: She chose the colors with great discrimination.
4. Archaic. something that serves to differentiate.

And I always heard that discrimination was mostly a bad thing.