Gays in the Military: Obama Disingenuous on Dissent

The Thursday, April 17, 2008 edition of the Washington Times ran a letter to the editor from Elaine Donnelly, responding to an article by S. A. Miller titled, "Obama won't require top military picks to back gays." The April 11 news article reported that during an interview with the gay publication The Advocate, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said that he would consider officers for appointment to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, even if they disagreed with his own view that professed homosexuals should serve in the military. More...