The DADT Debate: Representative Barney Frank
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), on the floor just now:
“It’s not that young members of the military who face death, who face the destruction their comrades, they’re not the ones who are upset by this. It’s our colleagues on the other side who are imputing their unease at the presence of gay and lesbian people to the young people in the military, who I think are better than that.”
And the debate goes on …
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