Against Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Let me surprise a few people here: I'm in favor of repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

First off, let me just say that I think Dan Choi is a patriot and I can't believe that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is still a serious policy in America.

Let's think about this: We allow the Australians, the Austrians, the Belgians, the Canadians, the Czechs, the Danes, the Estonians, the Finns, the French, the Irish, the Israelis, the Italians, the Lithuanians, the Dutch, the Norwegians, the Slovenians, the South Africans, the Spanish, the Swedish, and the Brits to serve alongside our troops. They all allow homosexuals to serve openly.

The same kinds of "scientific" studies that purportedly find something wrong with homosexuals serving openly are the same kinds of studies that stupidly affirmed Plessy v. Ferguson in Brown v. Board in that bunk doll test. The court should simply have affirmed Harlan's dissent in Plessy. These studies are the same kinds of studies that essentialize race on our campuses. They are not worth the paper upon which they are printed.

But seriously, why is the Athenaeum bringing yet another speaker to talk about an issue that few on campus find at all controversial? This will be the third speaker to talk about gay issues this semester.