True Equal Rights in the Military

I've sworn off blogging for a while because of deadlines and toddler shenanigans, but I simply had to blog this.My utterly brilliant cousin, Chris Patti, has just written an editorial for the Washington Post about what should happen now that Don't Ask Don't Tell has been repealed.As someone who's been on active duty in the navy for 20 years, he has a keen insider's view.

It is, for example, one thing to hand a gay junior sailor a paintbrush and point him toward a rusty bulkhead. But can that gay sailor, if he has a partner, collect the same housing allowance his married counterparts do? Can a lesbian sailor request to be stationed where her partner is? Will the military recognize a marriage between two service members that is legal in one state but not in another?

Read the rest of it here.Way to go, Chris. I couldn't agree more!