More WordsPresident Truman ended segregation in the armed forces by Executive Order in 1948. Obama should do the same to allow gays to serve openly. We turn this over to Congress, and it’s never getting past the Senate.
It’s not the same. You can’t overturn a legislative statute with an executive order. There was no congressional law passed saying African American service was incompatible with the military, as there is today with gays. Blacks were allowed to serve, but they served separately. There’s no gay battalion in charge of gentrification of old Iraqi neighborhoods. The President doesn’t have the leeway that Harry Truman did, as his actions are bound by law; a law that only the Congress can (and should) change.
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