Sunday, Nov. 30 will mark 10 years since President Clinton signed the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual service members into law. In the decade since the military’s gay ban went into effect, almost 10,000 men and women have been fired under the ban at a cost of more than $260 million to American tax payers.
In his strongest denunciation of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ to date, former President Bill Clinton says that ‘Simply put, there is no evidence to support a ban on gays in the military.’ The written statement was made to Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) earlier this month.