Just Repeal it Already

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has the same origins and ramifications as “Separate, but Equal,” and the former will ultimately go the way of the latter. They were both implemented as compromises to hotly debated issues. On one side, there was group that thought we should tolerate, accept, and love our fellow human beings regardless of how God made them. On the other side we had devoutly religious people. These pieces of legislation were steps taken to get a foothold for certain groups to get equal civil/human rights. At the time of implementation, the conservative opposition to empirical logic was too great, so progressives took what they could get. Ultimately however, all of us must realize on some level that neither of these policies were sustainable long term. The ban on openly gay Americans serving the military is going to lifted eventually, so how about we just get it over with an move on to other issues.