Melissa Etheridge Predicts End of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

By Melinda Newman Posted Sep 30th 2010 10:26AM

Despite the US Senate's Sept. 21 vote not to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the ban on gays serving openly in the military, Melissa Etheridge remains optimistic that the country is progressing toward equality.

"I know that we as a country and we as a world are moving forward into understanding that you can't legislate people's choices and what one person considers good and what one person considers bad," the musician and gay tells PopEater.

All decisions are governed by fear or love, Etheridge believes. "It's crazy and I know that those votes only come from fear," she says. "That they push those votes through in an election year, it just shows who's running the show up there."

The 'Fearless Love' singer foresees a day when civil rights are a foregone conclusion. "Fears of terrorism, of being attacked, these very seemingly real things that are there, they get all tangled up with love and gay rights," she says. "I know in the next 10, 20 years this will all be behind us and we will all sort of laugh at those crazy days when 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' was a law."

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Thursday 30 September

By PatrickPain

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Hey Melissa keep up with currebnt events, the bill trying to change the policy just got shot down. This is to protect gays, straights and it will save the tax payer money.

By wayne

.....and bigotry is devastatingly immoral !

By Bonbon

Typical liberal name calling! is that all you guys know how to do? Boring.

By Don Sherline

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Oh, wow. An entertainer predicts the end of "Don't ask, don't tell". Now that's something we can all take stock in.
I can make the same prediction but it won't make it into the news or onto the internet.
Since she must have a superior psychic sense why doesn't she use it and tell us when this is going to happen? If you know anything about the military or even just follow the daily news you know it isn't going to be any time soon.

By Hello Mr.Richard

Why doe's her opinion matter ?
Who cares what she thinks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By jgriz2000

she's so yesterday

By Ted

Mabye if everybody in the service was gay they would finally end this war cause there would be nobody to fight it. Go Figure

By MAGOOS

To all gay doctors, lawyers, firefighters, cops, military and every other gay person who offers a public service. Why not stop doing it for known bigots and see how quickly they straighten up! Of course you are all above such a thing and why drop to their level?

By JP

Damn, she's gotten really ugly with old age.

So she whines: "you can't legislate people's choices and what one person considers good and what one person considers bad"

Here's a hint: No ones trying to legislate your perverse choices or behavior. The military is not a democracy. You liberal air heads have no idea.

By davis

it's a NASTY NASTY NASTY NASTY sexual perversion, and it will never be be considered normal in society, and melissa ethridge needs to get back in the closet if she is going to practice this unacceptable NASTY life style.

great idea. gay only military; participation mandatory

By pete

We HAD equality when gays in service put their service to their country first. Now some are more concerned with flaunting their sexual preference than being part of the protections and service of our country. Just wait until we are obamas dream of a muslim nation. Are you aware of how they treat gays under shair'a law? Look up Hitler and see what he did with them.

If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.

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