Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen: Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.

(via thinkprogress1)

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  1. feministnerd12 reblogged this from earlyfrost
  2. earlyfrost reblogged this from thepoliticalpartygirl and added:
    Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen: Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal...
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  6. lattershed reblogged this from sacredsquid and added:
    it’s about fucking time.
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  9. unclesean reblogged this from onefootinthegrave and added:
    Watching this hearing on C-Span right now.
  10. aslowdescent reblogged this from niffin and added:
    pleasantly surprised by this!
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  14. niffin reblogged this from mzchief and added:
    “I have served with homosexuals since 1968…everybody in the military has and we understand that.”
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  19. aatombomb reblogged this from k-troll and added:
    So much for the “argument” that our top brass think this policy is important for unit cohesion. Bigotry FAIL.