Chairman of DNC, Howard Dean, On Gays in the Military
From Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee --
"When Ann Coulter said what she did the other day, everyone came down
on her. Her own party was mortified, as they should have been. It is
wrong to discriminate. It is wrong to call folks out for who they
are and this party isn't going to do it because we welcome everybody
you can think of in the Democratic Party because we are all
Americans, we all serve, we all go to the military when we need to. I thought what Peter Pace said was wrong the other day.
Because there are 65,000 gay people in America supporting
[applause] some have died for their country. How many of you know
that the first soldier who was wounded in the line of duty in Iraq
was a gay man? We need leadership at the top that understands the
sacrifices of the troops in the field. That's what we need."
--
DNC Chairman Howard Dean
3/14/07
