President Barack has announced the ban on openly gay people serving in US military is to end on September 20. Early in the Iraq war there were wonderful American soldiers who could translate but were not allowed to do so as they were gay. The American people and the military suffered the loss without the needed translators because of some people's prejudices. It is a shame that people ignorant of Nature and the human body are allowed to do such damage to so many lives by that ignorance.
Well, at last, that one wrong has been righted. There are many more with which being dealt with has taken a back seat because of the political game playing in a Congress who thought they were elected to serve themselves rather than the majority of the people in our country.
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This took a long time to come about with a very sad history to be written about those years of waiting by many whose military careers were destroyed by the delay. Nevertheless, let us not think about the past ignorance and cheer the awakening of understanding, acceptance of Nature's differences, and tolerance finding its way back to our legislators at long last.
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