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Originally Posted by u-dog
And to continue that thought... A young heterosexual Iraqi War Vet in the House of Representatives has just introduced legislation in the House to repeal DADT with 150+ co-authors.
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Read about this on Towleroad yesterday. Also saw Rep Patrick Murphy's interview with Rachel Maddow (Murphy is a Dem from PA...a very conservative state).
http://www.towleroad.com/2009/07/mur...it-happen.html
It's unusual, not only because of the person involved (young straight vet), but also because junior members usually wait until they've been around a while to introduce legislation.
I say all the more power to him. For all we know his best buddy is gay. After all, coming out changes things, makes it real, rather than political.