Robert Stout, Purple Heart winner and gay man, was up here on the Hill today to talk about Don't Ask Don't Tell. I know the cost-based arguments for why the gay ban is bad policy -- and they're all very good ones -- but the thing that I can't get past is just how deeply morally wrong a thing it is. I mean, we're taking high school dropouts and criminals now. But we tell a guy like this that he isn't fit to be cannon fodder. There are so very many ways for a gay person to know that they are expected to consider themselves less than fully human and less than fully American. Yay. Here's one more.
