SASless, youndo yourself no favours by recommending a letter organised by the
Family Research Council, a group which, "opposes and lobbies against equal rights for LGBT people (such as same-sex marriage, same-sex civil unions, and LGBT adoption), abortion, divorce, embryonic stem-cell research and pornography."
Especially when they quote their own spurious estimates of the cost being between $1.9 to $3.7B (more than the
entire DoD medical budget) as opposed the Rand calculation of between $3-8M. An that is the if the final report concludes such costs should be covered, and independent of the right to serve and/or dismiss those currently serving.
Those who signed the letter are retired, obviously, and are expressing their own views such as the controversial ones of
General Boykin quoted in the article, and executive VP of the FRC......