Lt. Dan Choi

Read this post by Susie Madrak at C&L on Dan Choi -- one of the latest gay servicemembers to be kicked out under DADT. It's pretty powerful.

The core:

Two weeks after I appeared on the show, we had National Guard training. Basically, we went to marksmanship qualification. We shot our rifles. And I was leading some of the training as officer in charge, telling them to cease fire or fire, and I thought, for four days, nobody was saying anything, so maybe they don't watch TV or maybe they don't read the "Army Times." But at the end of the training, so many people came up to me, my peers, my subordinates, people that outranked me, folks that have been in the Army -- and this is an infantry unit, infantry men that -- coming up to me and saying, hey, sir, hey, Lieutenant Choi, we know, and we don't care. What we care about is that you can contribute to the team. And what leaders do, they look to see how can they make the best team before they go to war.

That's what they care about.

Sorry -- DADT is wrong. It is wrong in practical terms, it is morally wrong, it is wrong for Americans. Just wrong. And I'm pretty well convinced that Obama's going to need a fire lit under him to do anything about it.

Mr. President, if your ranking generals -- the same generals who OK sending Bibles to war zones to convert the natives and filming Christianist recruitment videos in the Pentagon -- are resistant to change, maybe you need some new generals.