Originally posted at Cagle.
Nine months after nearly 400,000 servicemembers and over 150,000 spouses of active and reserve component servicemembers were surveyed by the Pentagon for their views on a potential repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," the results are in.
In what’s been called "one of the largest surveys in the history of the U.S. military," more than 70 percent of the 115,052 service members who completed the survey said the impact of repealing the policy that bans openly gay men and lesbians from serving in the armed forces would be positive, mixed or nonexistent.
Of course, such decisive findings will likely mean nothing to those opposed to lifting the ban including obstructionist-in-chief John McCain, who is now serving out his twilight years as the nation’s elder, bitter, not quite statesman.
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