Lt. Dan Choi: No cause for celebration & no need to trumpet 'mission accomplished' on DADT

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"My question still remains, and I've yet to find anyone who signed off on yesterday’s compromise able to give me a direct answer to, “when exactly will the discharges stop?,” said Lt. Dan Choi, an openly gay Iraq war veteran and Lieutenant in the United States Army. “Until the President signs the papers that fully and immediately end the firing of patriotic, gay and lesbian service members, then there is no cause for celebration and no reason to trumpet mission accomplished for a job not yet done...

From getEQUAL: While we're glad that there is movement on DADT, it is not enough for the servicemembers who have been discharged under the legislation -- some of whom stood with us as we handcuffed ourselves to the White House gate on April 20. For the two of us -- and many more who have been working for the repeal of this legislation for months and years -- this effort is simply a way for Congress, the White House, and the Pentagon to shift responsibility to one another indefinitely.

We hope that you will join us, along with thousands of other GetEQUAL members, to hold the President, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, and our LGBT organizations accountable to enact repeal this year and, in the meantime, to issue an Executive Order to end military discharges immediately. Our Commander-in-Chief made a promise this year in the State of the Union address to repeal DADT this year -- and we hope that you will lend your voice to calling him and others to make good on that promise.

Join us in calling for an Executive Order to stop military discharges now -- not later: www.getequal.org/dadt.php