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The world still hasn’t ended

Posted: September 24, 2012 at 4:07 a.m.

During the debate over Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell—which ended one year ago last week—Sen. John McCain insisted that ending the gay ban would do “great damage” to the military, and the commandant of the Marine Corps said it could “cost Marines’ lives.” One think-tanker agreed that we’d be taking “a risk with our lives, property and freedom.”

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Editorial, Pages 10 on 09/24/2012

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