Dissatisfied with Army Secretary John McHugh’s suggestion of a possible segregated Army, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, an advocacy group working to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, has asked him to “amend or clarify his comments by explicitly stating full repeal is the only way to go.”

The comments in question occurred in an Army Times interview that ran earlier this week, wherein McHugh stated that some areas of the military may become inclusive, while others may not.

Reuters reports on the specifics of the SLDN’s requests:

“We gather that Secretary McHugh was alluding in this interview to a hypothetical situation – if the President proposed some sort of phased-in approach to lifting the ban by Military Occupation Specialties (MSOs). But speaking in hypotheticals about separate billets or a gradual lifting of the ban does not advance the President’s stated goal of full legislative repeal. The ban must be lifted across all services, all occupations, and all units – all at the same time. Any kind of piecemeal approach to repeal, or even any discussion of such an approach, is an absolute nonstarter.”