Ethics: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

President Obama has pledged to end this policy which his Democratic predecessor, President Clinton, first put in place in 1993. The short version is that service members may be gay, but they may not openly reveal their sexual orientation to others nor may anyone ask them about their sexual orientation. Sexual acts between service members who are not married are already prohibited. So the question is whether it would be a good, right, or helpful thing to allow gays to serve openly in the military.

Links:
DADT (Wikipedia)
Efficacy of DADT (pdf) (Joint Force Quarterly)
USC 10, paragraph 654 (Cornell Law)
John McCain on DADT (Weekly Standard)
Don’t change DADT (Weekly Standard)
Gays in the Militaries (WSJ, available in full here)
Fornication and the UCMJ (Blog)