Irish, Jews, Nigras, Gays, the arguments are always the same. Just fill in the blank for "Other"

Now that repeal of DADT is well under way, opponents are dusting off an old playbook: segregation.

An easier route would be to look at the nearly two dozen nations who've been way ahead of the US in recognizing that people who are willing to sign up voluntarily to die for their country aren't likely to be the scary, outward-projected fantasies of obsessive anti-"homosexualists", to borrow a term from a familiar Christianist.