Donna, you misspelled "libertarian" as "liberal".

My father was career Navy. My brother was Navy. My mom was a Marine. My uncle was in the Air Force and my grandfather was Army. My fiancee has two sons, one who just got out of the Navy and another who is about to get out of the Army now that his Iraq tour is up. Heck, I work supporting an Air Force contract.

You said I brought "the race card" up - you forgot I also "brought" the "sex card" up. Why? Because you might not realize just how similar the situations are. People being denied permission to serve their country because of something that has NOTHING to do with their ability to serve their country.

Also, if you don't like what McCain thinks, apparently you can wait a little while, like the weather in New England, it'll change (and I find that highly disappointing).

So far, the only "put the brakes on a bit" thing I've heard that, to me, makes sense is that the military should be given some reasonable amount of time to work out what it (openly allowing gays) will mean for things like base housing, benefits, etc. Time to develop policies, in other words - and that certainly sounds reasonable to me.