Ask and tell

Op-Ed Contributor - An About-Face on Gay Troops - NYTimes.com

Venturing into politics for the first time.  Advances in civil rights often seem to come in fits and starts, with compromises along the way.  "Don't ask, don't tell" was a painful compromise that's finally being revistited:

"Last year the principal architects of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” former Gen. Colin Powell and former Senator Sam Nunn, said it was time to “review” the policy.

That’s a polite way of saying they’ve changed their minds. So have many of us who wore the uniform in 1993 and supported a policy that forced some of our fellow troops to live a lie and rejected thousands who told the truth."