THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, April 29, 1995 TAG: 9504290004
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A8 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 31 lines
I am grateful for your perceptive editorial (April 8) on the unfair and counterproductive ``don't-ask-don't-tell'' Pentagon policy on the treatment of homosexual military personnel.
Many military officers themselves are quite uncomfortable with this policy and privately agree with the recent federal court ruling on its unconstitutionality. You were quite right in noting that the arguments used by the proponents of the policy are reminiscent of the arguments used against racial and gender integration of the services.
The Sexual Minorities Commission of the Catholic Diocese has long believed that military personnel, as well as the rest of us, should be judged on the basis of conduct, not sexual orientation - or anything else on which we choose to base discrimination.
COSMAS RUBENCAMP
Executive secretary
Sexual Minorities Commission
Diocese of Richmond
Richmond, April 18, 1995 by CNB