Adam Levine
CNN
Women were dismissed from the military for being gay at a greater rate than men last year, according to new statistics obtained by a California research group.
All the services kicked out a disproportionate number of women under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, according to Department of Defense data obtained by the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The center studies gender and sexuality in the military.
The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, implemented in 1994, bans troops who are openly gay from serving in the military.
In the Air Force, a majority of those removed were women, the first time a service has had such a record since the implementation of the controversial law in 1994, according to Palm Center senior research fellow Nathaniel Frank.
| Cindy |
October 9th, 2009 10:12 am ET To be quite frank I think more people are more acceptable to women being gay more so than men because it's some what of a fantasy for men to have two women together. So they are more tolerable to that then having two men together. Cindy..Ga. |
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| Corve DaCosta |
October 9th, 2009 10:37 am ET Means they are not holding back on what they believe in. |
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