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Bill Clinton's Don't Ask - Don't Tell policy
For immediate release: July 16, 1993
For additional information:
Bill Winter, Director of Communications
(202) 543-1988
LIBERTARIANS: "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL"
POLICY IS UNWORKABLE AND UNFAIR
WASHINGTON DC -- The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy
compromise for gays in the military is unworkable and
unfair, said Mary Gingell, National Chair of the Libertarian
Party, and she urged President Bill Clinton to "have the
moral courage to stand up for his alleged principles."
"Don't ask, don't tell? Don't believe it," said Gingell.
"This so-called compromise is a denial of the concept of
equal rights, a shameless reversal of Clinton's campaign
promises, and a sell-out to the blind ignorance and fear of
the military establishment.
"Let's get government out of the discrimination
business," urged Gingell. "America should be a land where
sexual orientation isn't the government's business, and
where the men and women in our armed forces don't have to
fear the military 'Sex Police.' The 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
policy will create a climate of doubt, suspicion, and
mistrust in the military, and decrease the effectiveness of
our troops."
The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was recommended
yesterday by Defense Secretary Les Aspin, and President
Clinton has made it clear he will accept some version of it.
Stuart Reges, Libertarian Party National Director,
labeled Clinton "just another politician who promises
anything to get elected," but "caved in to pressure from the
bigots. Democrats are long on promises, and short on
principles when it comes to defending civil liberties. The
Libertarian Party is the only party that calls for an end to
governmental discrimination -- in or out of the military."
Reges, an openly gay man, noted that since 1975 the
Libertarian Party's platform has demanded "an end to the
Defense Department practice of discharging armed forces
personnel for homosexual conduct."
The Libertarian Party is the third largest political
party in America. Its platform calls for free enterprise,
free trade, individual liberty, respect for the Bill of
Rights, and no meddling overseas.
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