Posted on 01/07/2013 6:34:16 PM PST by Nachum
In a landmark settlement, the Pentagon has agreed to give full back pay to U.S. service members who were discharged due to their sexual orientation under the military's Dont ask, dont tell policy.
The payouts will be granted to service members dismissed from the military under the now-repealed policy on or after November 2004.
This means so much to those of us who dedicated ourselves to the military, only to be forced out against our will for being who we are, former Air Force Staff Sgt. Richard Collins said in a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the lawsuit.
Under "Dont ask," service members who were honorably discharged automatically had their separation pay cut in half.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Back pay for being mentally ill...
Bailing out the gay people now.
Makes sense to give them full back pay. A jihadist who killed over a dozen unarmed men, women, and children is still drawing his salary.
Sexual 'orientation', a subjective feeling -a leftist construct with no scientific basis in fact, was never illegal under the UCMJ. Homosexual sex was always illegal and those who chose to engage in such an intrinsically disordered activity were rightly removed from the military then as they will again in the future when sanity once again prevails in the Republic.
Then congress would have to pass a law to STOP payment, except the senate wont bring it up, and Obama would veto it.
So here we have Obama paying off every gay person who was ever found out in the military. No authorization from congress needed remember, they havent even formally repealed the program, Obama simply stopped enforcing it.”
The left has been doing this for quite a while. It has more force than legislation, because, as a court order it cannot be easily repealed. Just have the organization suing and the executive branch in sync, and the judge signs off on it. No voting, no letter writing, just make law without the legislature.
Reparations. Social Justice. Forward. March.
I am sure this would not include those that deliberately outed themselves or became gay to get out of the service, right?
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