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Colleges Cave to Pentagon Threat. (Essay).(military discharge, anti-gay discrimination laws and federal aid to higher education)
UNDER THE U.S. military's current "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, the Pentagon discharges well over a thousand people every year for being gay, lesbian, or bisexual. This policy is just the latest incarnation of an ongoing witch hunt that has been in operation since the Second World War.
The Pentagon fires three to four people every day for being gay--over 1,000 people each year. More than 115,000 gay and lesbian servicemembers have been discharged since the War. Servicemembers have had nooses placed on their racks, been beaten with pillow sacks filled with bars of soap, raped, murdered, discharged--all for being, or being perceived as, lesbian, gay or bisexual. ...
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