A Rabbi’s Call For Equality In The Ranks

Crossposted on RepealNOW A friend of mine Tanya Domi showed me this USA Today article, and I wish I had seen it when it was first published. The article was written by Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, a former Chaplain and an interfaith leader. In it he states: Despite some outlandish claims (including one charge that the [...]

Happy Seventeenth Birthday “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Happy birthday “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ! For seventeen years you have served us well! All I will ask is HOW MUCH LONGER DO I HAVE TO WAIT?? Watch ABC’s news take the night of it’s enactment.

Conscientious Objector Status For Those Opposed To Repeal?

This post was first published at RepealNOW. Pam Spaulding, “blogstress” at The Blend shared a story on her Facebook wall a minute ago that raised an eyebrow. “Hot Line Handling Evolving Pleas for Conscientious Objector Status.” According to The New York Times (emphasis mine): Ms. McNeil got a hot-line call that raised a new issue: [...]

Déjà vu

Usually when I wake in the morning, or recently, I flip open my mac to find oil covered birds and blown up pakistani trucks, or whatever the media has found the most devastating story of the day to be. What did I see thismorning? “Obama Pledges To Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’” Again. I saw [...]

Seven Year’s: Not Quite Old Enough

New York Times published that the House Armed Services Committee Chairman Representative Ike Skelton does not believe we should repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ because, “What do mommies and daddies say to their 7-year-old child?” I am embarrassed to say that this man hails from my home state. This type of rhetoric from an individual [...]

A Note On The Chaplain Argument

One of the largest oppositional arguments to repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” right now is an issue of “religious liberty” among our Chaplains. I have thought about this issue in every way possible, yet I am left with the notion that this is a non-issue. Before I give you the factual basis in this claim, [...]

Compromise Not On Our End

This article was cross-posted and first published at RepealNOW When I received the Press Release in my inbox stating that the White House had approved of the delayed implementation proposal, I was filled with joy. Those of us affected by this policy in the deepest ways have waited way to long to hear those words. [...]

Hello From Baghdad

It is probably necessary to begin this series on Servicemembers United Member Blogs by properly introducing myself. I am Just-a-Joe and I am a United States Army soldier serving the good fight in Iraq, on my second tour. I am working on my fourth year in the military, and have benefited greatly from it. I [...]