Jennifer Brunner Speaks Out on DADT
Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 2:04pm.
While gay activists across the country are howling in dismay at Barack Obama’s inexplicable timidity and backtracking on gay-rights issues, Jennifer Brunner is confronting the issue head on. Last week, she posted a statement on Huffington Post, expressing complete support for equal rights for all, including marriage. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-brunner/whats-there-to-get-about_...
Now, she has announced that if she is elected to the Senate next year, she will sponsor a bill to repeal the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy.
“’Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ has outlived its usefulness,” she says in a statement on her website. “It may have been a first step to inclusiveness in the military, but it has proved to be another ‘separate but equal’ concept used to exclude those who understand that forced silence is demeaning and unacceptable. It’s time to allow people to be free to speak of who they are, to respect them and allow them to be fully a part of the community that will move us forward through the coming social and economic change.”
