Comments on: The Daily Agenda for Friday, January 11 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2013/01/11/52643 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:38:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Steve http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2013/01/11/52643/comment-page-1#comment-228632 Steve Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:41:30 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=52643#comment-228632 DADT was a ban in all but name. The crap they said about people being able to to do "gay stuff" in private as long as they didn't bring it to work, was just that: crap. They lied about what it would mean in reality and never implemented the law properly. In practice if anyone was found it doing anything remotely gay they were discharged. Just as before. The number of discharges even went up every year until 2001. The only thing that improved was that DADT discharged were administrative instead of punitive. DADT was a ban in all but name. The crap they said about people being able to to do “gay stuff” in private as long as they didn’t bring it to work, was just that: crap. They lied about what it would mean in reality and never implemented the law properly. In practice if anyone was found it doing anything remotely gay they were discharged. Just as before. The number of discharges even went up every year until 2001. The only thing that improved was that DADT discharged were administrative instead of punitive.

]]> By: Qwerty http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2013/01/11/52643/comment-page-1#comment-228573 Qwerty Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:25:46 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=52643#comment-228573 I would take issue with one statement: "Unlike the U.S. (in theory, anyway), Britain had an outright ban on gays serving in the military, whether they were open about it or not." I believe that we had the same outright ban here, until DADT became law. So as hateful as DADT was, it was an improvement over prior law. I would take issue with one statement:

“Unlike the U.S. (in theory, anyway), Britain had an outright ban on gays serving in the military, whether they were open about it or not.”

I believe that we had the same outright ban here, until DADT became law. So as hateful as DADT was, it was an improvement over prior law.

]]> By: Steve http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2013/01/11/52643/comment-page-1#comment-228346 Steve Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:50:19 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=52643#comment-228346 Note that it took Britain just four months and a short memo to get rid of their ban. It was the same in Canada - who even acted to prevent a lawsuit they couldn't win. The US on the other hand needed a nine-months study and then another year to "implement" it. Note that it took Britain just four months and a short memo to get rid of their ban. It was the same in Canada – who even acted to prevent a lawsuit they couldn’t win.

The US on the other hand needed a nine-months study and then another year to “implement” it.

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