Don't-ask-don't-tell has been repealed.
I haven't written much about DADT because I don't really feel qualified to have a strong opinion on the matter. If our military leaders say that homosexuals can serve openly without harming our military readiness, then there you go. I see homosexuality as a moral issue, but DADT was only a tiny component of the overall debate. And as for the problems our society has with morality, I see the widespread acceptance of divorce and the degradation of marriage as far more significant than DADT.
As a Christian, I don't want to focus so much attention on homosexuality that a) homosexuals become completely alienated from Christ, and b) that the larger culture war is lost because of a too-narrow focus.
With regards to DADT itself, I'm in the minority who believes that it was a rather elegant policy, given the beliefs it was based on. If open homosexuals degrade military capability, then DADT is a great solution. We didn't have to waste time investigating people, but we could deal with them when they became a problem.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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