Corrections for text of Do Ask, Do Tell: A Gay Conservative Lashes Back.

These corrections apply to the original 1997 printing.

Back Cover: The cover states that the Bill of Rights is about 160 years old. Actually, Congress approved of the first ten amendments in 1789 and they became law in 1791 with Virginia's ratification (the 11^th state). So a more reasonable approximate age is 210 years! Two of the original twelve amendments did not get ratified. James Madison had actually started with 17 amendments, yet at one time Madison had actually opposed creating a bill of rights! In 1833 (and this is a little more than 160 years ago), the Supreme Court ruled that the Bill of Rights (understood as the first ten amendments) applied only to national government and not to the states. Madison had originally wanted to prevent the states from violating certain rights. About thirty years after the adoption of the 14^th Amendment in 1868, the Supreme Court began to extend some of the bill of rights to the states, making them "complete." It is true that James Madison died in 1836 (now 163 years ago) and that during the 1830's slaves began to glimpse the possibility that they indeed had a fundamental right to be free, that something like a Bill of Rights should apply to them. The Amistad case was settled by the Supreme Court in 1841.

Epigraph: Quotes from Hamlet ..."fust in us unused"

First page number refers to commercial version; second, to manuscript.

Chapter 1, page 10 (6) – parents’ weekend plans

Chapter 1, page 15 (9) – the names of our representatives; winds of war

Chapter 1, page 17 (11) – mildly spoiled

Chapter 1, page 24 (15) – an infraction

Chapter 2, page 41 (27) – the Army

Chapter 2, page 43* (28*) - "White Resigns" is section '-03-' .

Chapter 2, page 44* (29*) - …Smith's College Chemistry in our home);

Chapter 2, page 47* (31*) – a chess game is an ultimate individual struggle

Chapter 2, page 48*, (32*) para. 3: the 'theory' is that building up a position slowly,…

Chapter 2 Page 77, para 4 -- "which I thought made my mathematics background most sellable.

Chapter 3, Page 84* (56*) gave me a forced ninety-minute tour” (remove extra and)

Chapter 3, Page 84* (56*) constitutional convention.

Chapter 3, Page 84*, para 4 (57*): probably an indirect green light…

Chapter 3, Page 86 (58) sheltered in my own garden apartment.

Chapter 3, Page 88 (60) a collective component

Chapter 3 Page 97 (66) - the second section marked "-04-" should read "-04B-".

Chapter 3, Page 97 (66) into their principles

Chapter 3, Page 100 (68) down in the world

Chapter 3, Page 101 (69) that a promotion meant perks, a relief from drudgery and undignified labor, and a chance for travel and (adaptive) excitement.

Chapter 3, Page 102 (70) people’s solidarity

Chapter 3, Page 102 (70) the culture of specifically IBM mainframes

Chapter 3, Page 103 (71) downsizings and mergers

Chapter 3, Page 104 (71) spacey wife

Chapter 3, Page 105 (72) Once we bushwhacked

Chapter 3, Page 105* (72)* and meet him

Chapter 3 Page 105* (72)* found and ran

Chapter 3, Page 107 (73) Mt. Wheeler

Chapter 3, Page 112 (78) to keep it involves

Chapter 3, Page 113 (78) “first normal form” of morality

Chapter 3, Page 114 (78) carried this idea of eternal marriage into the afterlife

Chapter 3 Page 116 (79), para 7 Newsweek

Chapter 3, Page 118 (80) delete “it is claimed”

Chapter 3, Page 125 (80) required holders of professional licenses

Chapter 3, Page 125 (85) Jesse Helms and other conservatives tried to block

Chapter 3, Page 125 (85) its moral stature

Chapter 3, Page 129 (87) they did not simply discriminate against us but also hated us.

Chapter 3, Page 132 (89) allowed me a cheap shot

Chapter 3, Page 134 (89) and on one occasion

Chapter 3, Page 136 (90) unless they learn

Chapter 3, Page 138 (92) and if you really had grown up

Chapter 3, Page 139* (94)* I had been right

Chapter 4 Page 143* (97*) first hint (not fits hint’s)

Chapter 4, Page 151(101) solely

Chapter 4 Page 151 (101), para. 1, last sentence. "in which"…. " and as I got out…"

Chapter 4, Page 153 (103) Holobaugh

Chapter 4, Page 166 (112) someone (without “the”)

Chapter 4 Page 170* (118*), para 6. "…choir trips."

Chapter 4 Page 173* (119*) , para. 4. Nobody liked “When you’re on base…"

Chapter 4 Page 199* (134*) , para. 3. "The Marine Corps argued that it does not have to pay…" ("it" rather than "is")

Chapter 4 Page …. (123) “We do the best we can.”

Chapter 4 Page 218* (142*) , para 1: "….then it is in some sense tolerated…"

Chapter 5 Page 249 - $600,000. From 1997 until 2004, this exclusion will increase in increments until it reaches $1,000,000.

Chapter 5 Page 253 (175), footnote 86: Appendix 7.

Chapter 5 Page 266 (184) to eliminate

Chapter 5 Page 268, para 3: "responsibility for the nastiest problems" (eliminate extra "to")

Chapter 5 Page 277 Eleven (not nine) states bar discrimination for sexual orientation in employment (as of 1998).

Chapter 5 Page 283* (186*) para 3: "perhaps like a handicapped person…"

Chapter 5 Page 284* (186*) last sentence of second para should read

But if men really can't be trusted to answer for themselves and if society (outside of family) must take care of them when they are sick or disabled, then according to some arguments men benefit from channeling of their sexual drives into a specific, narrow kind of committed heterosexuality and from the blocking of any contrary information from the culture. ("then" replaces "society". The sentence also makes a slightly different sense if you replace "men" with "may")

Chapter 5 Page 288* (186*), Para. 1, "publish schemes."

Chapter 6 p 294 (203) sent to the states

Chapter 6 p 302 (207) watched a Judge Entz

Chapter 6 p 308 (213) solely

Chapter 6 p 308 (213) Would cloning deny…; Gay teenage men

Page 310, (214) The Crucible

Page 310 (214) purposes. Amendment 29, Section 2: Remove the ';'.

Page 318* (220*) (para 2: "But I want to replay my main thread of thematic development…" (remove extra "the")

Appendix: Page 332 Section (2) (a) (b) "is a felony in the third degree…"

Bibliography: Page 338 Expectations

Page 340 Laura Schlessinger's book title starts with "Ten Stupid Things…," not "The Stupid Things."

Page 342 18th Century

There were a great deal of last minute content changes because of the wave of current events in the first half of 1997, before we went to press.