Gay Linguists Discriminated Against In Discharges “Don’t Tell Don’t Ask Not Honored”

In a recent Time magazine article , it became pretty obvious that the military violated their own policy of don’t ask don’t tell. Former Navy Officer Stephen Benjamin became the subject of an investigation of soldiers who were using the internet to send private emails and along with other soldiers was caught sending explicit emails to loved ones. However his loved one was a man. The military immediately adopted the policy that this violated the don’t tell don’t ask policy. However from my perspective this violated the don’t ask policy. The military should have given him the same treatment of the other soldiers who wrote explicit letters to heterosexuals and been done with it. Under the Don’t tell don’t tell policy, he should not have been asked about his emails just meted out the punishment of others. Under the policy we can not speculate on what his words meant or why they were said. This is one case that is an obvious case of discrimination and should be heard in court. Give the linguists their day in court.

~ by unlock it on June 6, 2007.