Analysis Of Don T Ask Dont Tell

The topic of homosexuality has become a repepititive issue throughout our society for many years. Alot of people do not agree with the gay lifestyle for either religious and moral reasons.This can affect how one chooses to live their life and how they lack in growth becoming the person they want to. Growing up, Merle struggled to find the common ground between being who the world accepted and being gay. He concluded that you could not be both. Merle allows us to see things through his eye wiht his essay written for the New York Times.He illustrates to the reader what it was like growing up being gay as well as how the complexities of being gay in the 1900, and the topic of sexuality controlled his lifestyle daily. He talks about the shame he felt for being gay …show more content…
It states that "No State has the power to make or enforce any law which should abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor should any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property." in Despite of this being very clear wording,citizens let the government assert authority and discriminate against homosexuals as they did blacks that live in the United States.The "Don 't Ask,Don 't Tell" Policy created by the military in the 1990 's,criminalized sexuality in many states,even when the participants were consenting adults,in a non-threatening situation for them or other people,and even the Blatant banning of civil unions between same-sex couples which would grant them most critical rights and abilities that heterosexual couples receive when they are wed. Before the last past in 2015 that granted same sex marriage,there was a piece of legislation entitled the Federal Marriage Amendment, which wanted to define marriage, as a purely religious contextual term, only between a man and