It’s clearly time to end the ludicrous “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that allowed gays to serve their country only if they hid their sexual preference. The nation has moved on, but the military, evidently, hasn’t. They want to kick the can down the road with a year-long “study” of the potential effects of ending the policy. The arguments against allowing openly gay soldiers is precisely the argument used against integrating the armed forces and against allowing women in combat units–that other soldiers wouldn’t accept them and the morale of the military, and thus its effectiveness, would be compromised. Well, folks, we have black soldiers and we have women soldiers, and we seem to be doing fine. And a few years after we allow gays to serve openly, the American military will still be strong, and we’ll be wondering what the fuss was all about.  There’s no point in putting this off another day.