As we struggle with marriage equality, there is a shame that continues to blight American education. In our institutions of higher learning, sits the ROTC. That means at our universities there exists an organization that is an integral part of university life and a source of crucial funding for students that is allowed to openly discriminate against LGBT people. By national law, any university that insists on ending this blatant and ugly discrimination against our young, will lose its federal funding.

Just one more case where there is a federal law separating us from the rest of American society! Thank God it is against our LGBT students so they can start learning how to live in a separate society early. This law is a blight on every institution of learning in America and the fact that it quietly exists is a shame on our country, our institutions of higher learning and those who have yet to repeal it.

Just think of it: On our campuses like Harvard, Yale, UCLA, University of Florida there is an officially recognized part of the university system that has a big "NO GAYS ALLOWED" sign on it. Wonder what the reaction would be if ROTC had a big sign on it that said "NO AFRICAN-AMERICANS ALLOWED" or "NO WOMEN ALLOWED?"

What is more amazing is that ROTC scholarships are a major source of funding for many students as they prepare to enter the military. Obviously, open members of the LGBT community can't serve in the military and thus cannot receive these important sources of funding. Can't be more direct than that can it? Even more outrageous is that our young, the universities and others have accepted this system of separation as a way of university life.

Without much fanfare and with little effort, President Obama and Congress could simply repeal this amendment. The repeal would not require colleges to expel ROTC but simply give the academic community the 'choice' if they want their places of learning to be a place of freedom or continued oppression against the LGBT community.

Finally, it is amazing to me that students so active in many of our struggles are overlooking the most obvious target right in their own backyards. I can only urge them to carefully consider how they feel about this 'no gays' policy and urge them, in the name of equal justice, to fight back.