Hilary Clinton Tells Gay Leaders She'll Oppose 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told the nation's leading gay rights group in an unpublicized speech that she opposes the military’s ban on gays and lesbians instituted when her husband was in office.
According to the Associated Press, Sen. Clinton said it would be safer for the nation if openly gay soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen could wear the uniform.

"This policy doesn't just hurt gays and lesbians, it hurts all our troops and this to me is a matter of national security and we're going to fix it," Clinton said, reports the AP.

The Pentagon instituted the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which says gays may serve in the military only if they keep their sexual orientation private, while her husband Bill Clinton was president. In 1999, as she prepared to run for the Senate from New York, Clinton publicly opposed that policy.

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