BR,
I think that is what is being missed in this conversation, nobody gives a rat's arse if she is gay. Nobody cares if she attended the VMA with Lady Gaga to highlight DADT. This thread has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality, your post about irrational malice towards homosexuals is unwarranted. It was she who wore the uniform!
Nothing more and nothing less!
I actually think you will see the majority of posters from a social standpoint have no issue with homosexuals, but many want to make sure that the DoD does not do a knee jerk reaction when it comes to integration. I honestly, do not believe one poster here thinks it won't happen shortly. JMHPO.
Left, right or indifferent, you want to believe this is a homosexual issue. You made it about sexual orientation. Not us. We have kept to wearing the uniform. Please don't try to divert the thread into DADT, because it really isn't about DADT policy, it is about her wearing the uniform and the reaction to her wearing it from a military standpoint.
I find 2 things interesting from WAMOM
1.
"It was a big decision to wear the uniform," Miller said. "You're not supposed to be in uniform at anything that could be perceived as a political event."
SO in other words, she knew!
Anyone who wants to defend her from a military standpoint, please try, because I would love to see how you can now defend her when she admitted she knew the facts....please, please, please go for it! Let me cut you off 1st, with it was not a "political event", YEP, but it was a "political statement". In other words you are defending her on splitting a hair, and one that I am positive a PR person for a DADT organization prompted her...look at #2.
2. Her future path
"I'm taking a light course load," she said. "Given the position I'm in right now, and how close we are to getting ('don't ask, don't tell') repealed, my priority right now is on activism and making a difference."
Maybe, I am silly, but I have a funky feeling she doesn't need Yale at all. She is probably already networking her 15 minutes of fame into the activist corporate world.
ABSOLUTELY not wrong in this scenario, just saying she can be very thankful from a financial standpoint DADT existed.