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A group of experts in military law concluded Obama can end DADT with the stroke of a pen:

http://www.palmcenter.org/files/active/0/Executive%20Order%20on%20Gay%20Troops%20-%20final.pdf 

Congress can continue to work on ending it through legislation, while individuals and groups go about ending it through the courts (the Log Cabin Republicans lawsuit has taken 6 years to get to last week's decision in the federal court; it's nowhere near over).  

There's no reason all can't happen simultaneously, and should. 
 
One of the many benefits of an executive order ending DADT is that its implementation begins to knock down the fallacies that exist about gay men and women serving in the military.  It gets people used to it, which would go a very long way in bringing this latest chapter in our nation's shameful history of big0try to a close, but not to an end.  This past May, the House and a Senate panel passed a plan to repeal DADT, but with the usual slick out-clause or backdoor.  The plan by politicians in our 2-party system has always been to use gay rights as a wedge issue for both parties' base's turnout each election, kicking the can down the road as long as possible by keeping gay Americans disenfranchised.  

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-05-28/politics/gays.in.the.military_1_larger-defense-authorization-bill-repeal-white-house?_s=PM:POLITICS>
WIth a stroke of a pen, Obama can go a long way to healing some of the problems in this country in many different ways.  It's good for gays, it's good for the military (we're having problems retaining troop strength, and gay soldiers skills' sets save all soldiers' lives), it's good for the war effort (it is "war time", or so we've been told often enough), it's good for the American people, and it's good for the world.

It also refocuses attention where I think it always should have been:  The purpose of our military and our true state of preparedness.  

How is it that this nation, that allegedly stands as a beacon for individual liberty and universal justice, can justify separating any competent professional soldiers from service for their sexual orientation in this time of war?  
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