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DOD: Gay Troops Will Get Extra Time Off to Go to Same-Sex Marriage States and Get Hitched
Cybercast News Service ^ | 8/14/13 | Susan Jones

Posted on 08/14/2013 10:41:23 AM PDT by Nachum

The U.S. Defense Department announced on Wednesday that it will make "spousal and family benefits" available no later than Sept. 3, 2013, regardless of sexual orientation, for all service members who can provide a valid marriage certificate. And what about same-sex military couples who live in a state where same-sex marriage is not allowed? No problem. "We recognize that same-sex military couples who are not stationed in a jurisdiction that permits same-sex marriage would have to travel to another jurisdiction to marry. That is why the department will implement policies to allow military personnel in such a relationship non-chargeable leave for the

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To: TurboZamboni

Capri floods and Che V-neck t-shirts.


21 posted on 08/14/2013 11:20:21 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: TurboZamboni

It’s called Permissive TDY. It’s used for all sorts of things. Sports, picking up kids from overseas, house hnting, etc.


22 posted on 08/14/2013 11:20:43 AM PDT by USAF80
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To: Nachum

I see a potential 14th Amendment Equal Protection challenge coming.


23 posted on 08/14/2013 11:22:51 AM PDT by magellan
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To: Nachum

Who wants to join the Roman military forces with a Roman majority in Congress and a non-Roman majority in the general population?


24 posted on 08/14/2013 11:43:47 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: ansel12; All
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of their leftist agenda into law,
they quietly move on to their next leftist goal."




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25 posted on 08/14/2013 11:48:53 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Nachum; 185JHP; 230FMJ; AFA-Michigan; AKA Elena; APatientMan; Abathar; Absolutely Nobama; ...
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All I can add is this off the cliff into the Marianna Trench of grossest immorality backed, promoted and enforced by an utterly tyrannical government, along with the destruction of many if not most of our Constitutionally protected rights, is what I feared for years. Now it's happening at lightning speed. May God have mercy on us.

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26 posted on 08/14/2013 11:52:39 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: ansel12

Libertarians hiding behind the skirts of states’ rights have been utterly exposed. Any time I tried to engage any of them about states rights, they either left the discussion, lied, or hedged. Only one finally admitted that yes, theoretically the states could be “allowed” to have laws curbing vice, but they shouldn’t.

The LP is the party of vice and mass illegal immigration.

BTW - I’m way way behind trying to find that quote from I think the 1980s, a libertarian advocating the legalization of child pornography. If you have it, I’d appreciate it.


27 posted on 08/14/2013 11:57:38 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah; ansel12

Sorry, but this (L) doesn’t jive with this DoD policy. This is preferential treatment of a gov’t approved group.

Now, you want to discuss vise. Liberty and Freedom come with all SORTS of ‘problems’; quandaries, choices, vices, addiction and consequences for ones’ actions. The *HORROR*.

Do *I* have a prob. w/ laws vs. vices? HELL yeah. Like to eat? ‘Over-weight’ per the State? Vice. Like to drink? No more 6-pks says the State...vice. CAN States pass those kind of Laws? Sure, if enough people allow their Reps to do so...as much as those being over-taxed, over-regulated, etc. have the ability to MOVE to a State more of their choosing.


28 posted on 08/14/2013 12:18:58 PM PDT by i_robot73 (Gov't always start as MAY and SHOULD, but soon becomes one of WILL and SHALL. Never let them START.)
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To: little jeremiah

For quite a while I was trying to get libertarians to admit to or at least acknowledge the federal aspects of their leftist agenda, the military, immigration, federal employment and how gay marriage is also a part of all that, but they refused to even acknowledge those posts, as they stayed focused on promoting gay marriage as a state issue only.


29 posted on 08/14/2013 12:22:05 PM PDT by ansel12 ( The difference between libertarianism and conservatism is radical social leftism, not economics)
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To: Nachum

30 posted on 08/14/2013 12:32:26 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: i_robot73

Skip this little thing about some leave time.

Are you saying that your libertarianism supports discriminating against homosexuality by the federal government, for instance, that the military should not recognize a marriage, if it is of homosexuals?


31 posted on 08/14/2013 12:35:01 PM PDT by ansel12 ( The difference between libertarianism and conservatism is radical social leftism, not economics)
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To: ansel12

Basically they are rabidly pro-vice, using states’ rights as a smokescreen. And not one of them I’ve ever seen is honest.


32 posted on 08/14/2013 12:45:33 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: i_robot73

You’re comparing overeating with sodomy?

Odd.


33 posted on 08/14/2013 1:02:37 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: i_robot73

The libertarianism you espouse has nothing to do with Constitutional principles or the vision that founded our country. The founders of our country saw nothing wrong with laws criminalizing homosexual acts; in fact they saw such laws as necessary. Article is too long to copy in its entirety. Libertarianism as a philosophy very little to nothing in common with the founding principles of our Republic.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242920/posts

The Founders on Homosexuality
Apologetics Press ^ | Dave Miller, Ph.D.

Posted on Saturday, May 02, 2009 3:35:50 PM by Conservative Coulter Fan

Of those living today in America who were alive 50 years ago, few could have imagined, let alone predicted, that homosexuality would encroach on our culture as it has. In fact, it would have been unthinkable. The rapidity with which homosexual activists continue successfully to bully the nation to normalize what once was universally considered abnormal is astonishing. And toleration has not satisfied them. Allowing their views to be taught in public schools has not appeased them. No, they insist that societal endorsement extend to redefining marriage to include same-sex couples.

A pernicious plague of sexual insanity is creeping insidiously through American civilization. Far more deadly than the external threat of terrorism, or even the inevitable dilution of traditional American values caused by the infiltration of illegal immigrants and the influx of those who do not share the Christian worldview, this domino effect will ultimately end in the moral implosion of America. Indeed, America is being held captive by moral terrorists. The social engineers of “political correctness” have been working overtime for decades to restructure public morality.

The Founding Fathers of these United States would be incredulous, incensed, and outraged. They understood that acceptance of homosexuality would undermine and erode the moral foundations of civilization. Sodomy, the longtime historical term for same-sex relations, was a capital crime under British common law. Sir William Blackstone, British attorney, jurist, law professor, and political philosopher, authored his monumental Commentaries on the Laws of England from 1765-1769. These commentaries became the premiere legal source admired and used by America’s Founding Fathers. In Book the Fourth, Chapter the Fifteenth, “Of Offences Against the Persons of Individuals,” Blackstone stated:

IV. WHAT has been here observed..., which ought to be the more clear in proportion as the crime is the more detestable, may be applied to another offence, of a still deeper malignity; the infamous crime against nature, committed either with man or beast.... But it is an offence of so dark a nature...that the accusation should be clearly made out....


34 posted on 08/14/2013 1:06:55 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Nachum
This goes FAR beyond what the Windsor decision allowed.
35 posted on 08/14/2013 1:25:49 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

So do many recent changes/decisions/policies involving fagdom.

It’s gone totally 100% insanely off the cliff.


36 posted on 08/14/2013 2:14:01 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: USAF80

never offered that when I was in the Army.

“permissive”...I’ll say.


37 posted on 08/14/2013 2:42:58 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: ansel12

Let’s start with the verbiage here: Marriage, being a religious matter, as far as I’ve EVER know, has always been man/woman.

Let’s not play the lib game ‘how many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?’...They say 5 and everyone else goes WTF?

I’m saying, if we had a Constitutional gov’t, there would be NO need to recognize ANY marriage, civil union, etc.

It’s amazing how fast gov’t is able to jump on this (ludicrous speed it seems), but try to the same logic for Constitutional carry and boy watch the turtle


38 posted on 08/14/2013 3:55:05 PM PDT by i_robot73 (Gov't always start as MAY and SHOULD, but soon becomes one of WILL and SHALL. Never let them START.)
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To: little jeremiah

I was discussing, and specifically sited, vices....one of which IS sex (vaginal, oral or buggery, I made no distinction).


39 posted on 08/14/2013 3:57:47 PM PDT by i_robot73 (Gov't always start as MAY and SHOULD, but soon becomes one of WILL and SHALL. Never let them START.)
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To: Nachum; zot; Interesting Times

I guess it is time to start talking to my nephew about getting out of the Army.


40 posted on 08/14/2013 3:59:58 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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