DADT

Don't ask, don't tell. Don’t ask if I am gay, I won’t tell that I am gay. That entire phrase makes absolutely no sense, what-so-ever. Since when has America become a land where one can't be his or her self? At one point, women weren't allowed to serve in the military, and once they were allowed, they weren't able to do combat, and why? Because women were born with different hormones than men. Because women were born as women. They were being deprived something solely based on who they were. Now that women are finally being able to go into combat, they are finally being accepted for who they are within the military. But now, this whole "don't ask, don't tell" policy is oppressing the gay community the same way that women were once oppressed, and blacks were once oppressed. Although the extreme cases of slavery and not being able to vote aren't in the same category, one cannot deny the fact that oppression due to who you are, and how you were born, is still oppression, PERIOD.

America dictates and prides itself on being the land of the free. When people think of the United States of America, they would see a country where anything is possible, but apparently that anything disregards being who you were born to be.
It is a shame, that in this century, people aren't getting it. People don't get that no matter the color of your skin, your religious denomination, your gender, or who you love matters. Every human being is the same. Feelings are feelings, and pain is pain. Whether you are gay on the front line, or straight on the front line, you're fighting for your country. Hiding who you are shouldn't be a condition to serve your country.

Though the many years America has been around, we have constantly put down other because they are different. When will it stop? As former President Harry S. Truman once said “the buck stops here”.