There were also buttons expressing support for homosexuals in the military that were passed out for students to wear in the law school and while they interviewed with different employers. I know that several of the employers that I interviewed with wore the buttons as well. As a non-button wearing student I was asked several times a day if I wanted to wear one. It was like the Nazi button policies turned on their head. There was very little opportunity to express alternative opinions at the law school. I did not sign the petition nor did I wear the buttons that were passed out. I was asked several times a day if I would sign the petition or put on a button, and it got quite tiresome to repeatedly say no.
I’d like to say that it’s only at Yale that students being asked to sign petitions opposing the army’s open policy of discrimination against homosexual Americans argue that they’re the ones really being persecuted (as if by Nazis, no less). But it’s not only at Yale.