Comments on: Pentagon Releases Revised DADT Guidance http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/10/21/27515 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sun, 19 May 2013 14:07:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: John in the Bay Area http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/10/21/27515/comment-page-1#comment-81409 John in the Bay Area Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:33:00 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=27515#comment-81409 Unfortunately, this memo says nothing about rigorously enforcing the Don't Ask and the Don't Pursue portions of the law. To my knowledge, nobody has been disciplined for asking a servicemember if they are gay or pursuing an investigation of a servicemember who did not admit to being gay in the first place. If those sections of the law were seriously enforced, with consequences for those who violated the law, there would have been a lot fewer discharges over the last 17 years. In fact, people would have been reluctant to pursue the question of whether someone was gay for fear of losing their own job in the process. Unfortunately, this memo says nothing about rigorously enforcing the Don’t Ask and the Don’t Pursue portions of the law. To my knowledge, nobody has been disciplined for asking a servicemember if they are gay or pursuing an investigation of a servicemember who did not admit to being gay in the first place.

If those sections of the law were seriously enforced, with consequences for those who violated the law, there would have been a lot fewer discharges over the last 17 years. In fact, people would have been reluctant to pursue the question of whether someone was gay for fear of losing their own job in the process.

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