Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

In writing a research letter/paper today on all the academic, ethical and moral reasons why we say: Marquette, Close the School of Army on campus, I discovered once again that the main reason why major academic institutions will not allow a base ROTC school of army on campus is discrimination. Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Stanford and others cite the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy as discrimination against Gays and Lesbians.

While I agree that the military does discriminate, I believe there are other important and moral reasons why military training for war should not be on a university campus, especially one like Marquette, that espouses Catholic faith and values.

While I was thinking about this today, a Catholic Worker friend from Iowa sent me this editorial cartoon which says this point better than words. The cartoon is too small to fully read on top of this page so below I have enlarged it. The cartoon, about 50 years after the repeal of this law, was sent with the CATHOLIC WORKER STATEMENT CALLING FOR CONFESSION OF AND REPENTANCE FOR HETEROSEXISM.

I post this cartoon with the same disclaimer. It is a comical comment about the senselessness and obscenity of war, with or without this discriminatory policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Here it is:

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