On last night's show, Maddow again took aim at "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," welcoming DADT expert Nathaniel Frank on her program. Enjoy: Brilliant, voluble, researched conversation. Can someone please explain how this is still losing to the ridiculous idea that gays want to schtup everything they see in...

For over fifteen years, the issue of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has been debated. President Bill Clinton claims it was a necessary step; others abhor it as a repressive and impossible policy for the LGBT members of the Armed Forces. If anyone really thinks about it, can you imagine li...

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It was 15 years ago yesterday that two different "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" developments hit the American landscape. (1) The military formally adopted the divisive compromise: (2) The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" episode of "Roseanne," the one wherein the title character smooched Mariel Hemingway, made its ...

  Good As You alerted us to Focus on the Family's hilariously awful anti-gay conference in Charlotte. They also put a human face on Jeff Johnston, an "ex-gay" who is obviously not human because it's not possible for anyone to change their sexual orientation. This guy would be ...

Apparently, President Obama is either hedging on lifting the ban on gays in the military, or he is getting all his ducks in a row so that when he lifts the ban he has done all the proper homework and set up all the necessary support in order to avoid a Clintonian backlash. (I am hopeful it's the...

"Repealing the ban on open homosexuals serving in the U.S. military would be a mistake of historic proportions." "Certainly there would be a mass exodus of normal men from a homosexualized military," ..."probably leading to the reinstatement of compulsory service. (Watch the anti-war Lefties become ...

They may sound like fun romps in the sack; but this is how Wikipedia describes the phrase "blanket parties": Blanket parties are most frequently conducted by groups within the military or military academies. In a blanket party, the victim is restrained by having a blanket flung over him and held dow...

Obama’s incoming press secretary Robert Gibbs gives an unequivocal “Yes” when asked if Obama will repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The question was asked on Open for Questions. The section of www.change.gov where Americans can ask questions of the new administration and vo...

Elaine Donnelly, whose primary career consists of speaking ill of gays and lesbians in camouflage, has hauled out lots of novel justifications for her biased, militarized views. But this, an attempt to inject the far-right's "religious freedom" hysterics into the Don't Ask Don't Tell conversation, i...