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Gates says he wants to soften gay expulsion rules
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D995BLS80&show_article=1&catnum=0 ^ | ANNE GEARAN

Posted on 06/30/2009 6:44:26 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he wants to make the law prohibiting gays from serving openly in the armed forces "more humane" until Congress eventually repeals it. He said he has lawyers studying ways the law might be selectively enforced.

"One of the things we're looking at is, is there flexibility in how we apply this law?" Gates said.

The defense chief, a holdover from the Republican administration of former President George W. Bush, told reporters traveling with him in Europe that the Clinton-era ban was written without much wiggle room. The Pentagon general counsel is looking at potential avenues around full enforcement as a stopgap, Gates said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodod; dontaskdonttell; gaystapo; homobama; homosexualagenda; perverts

1 posted on 06/30/2009 6:44:26 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ugh


2 posted on 06/30/2009 6:46:42 PM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This guy is such an administration butt kisser, just unreal. He will do anything to keep his job. ;-)


3 posted on 06/30/2009 6:47:55 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Apparently, Gates has dropped some soap bar’s around Barry....


4 posted on 06/30/2009 6:51:12 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Free ThinkerNY
This is interesting indeed - if you recall from the PBS series "Carrier" a model sailor had his career effectively ended because of a liaison with a subordinate of the opposite sex. Wonder what the rules of engagement will be for admirals of the windward passage.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
5 posted on 06/30/2009 6:51:51 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A Bush appointee giving Obama cover in advance... Gates must be counting on a bright future courtesy of grateful ‘Rats.


6 posted on 06/30/2009 6:53:06 PM PDT by Pallas
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gates. Resign NOW.


7 posted on 06/30/2009 6:53:09 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Out Gays In Military In, Out Gates”


8 posted on 06/30/2009 6:56:56 PM PDT by Costumed Vigilante (Congress: When a handful of evil morons just isn't enough)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ahhh, there’s no such law.


9 posted on 06/30/2009 7:13:49 PM PDT by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: ConorMacNessa

I hated that series. As someone who spent some time on various carriers, I thought it was BS. They tried to make it like a reality show.


10 posted on 06/30/2009 7:16:58 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Gates would be well advised to turn his attention to how sexual perverts ended up running Abu Ghraib prison.

Obviously there's something wrong that needs fixed.

11 posted on 06/30/2009 7:18:51 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Let the Gays serve in their own battalions and such, maybe the reason we have so many gays here stateside is that none of them have been allowed to shed blood for their country.

When you send only heterosexual folk out to die is it any wonder the numbers of homosexuals increase at home???

But there have to be regulations to protect the heterosexual troops, it is kinda the same with allowing men and women to serve together. You have to enforce it vigilantly, so you don’t have soldiers harassing their gay or straight counterparts. The rule should be this, “We don’t care who you sleep with off base, but you have to leave you sexuality at the front gate or yu get kicked out.”

Gays and all soldiers for that matter should also have regular STD checks as well to prevent the spread of infectious agents inside units.


12 posted on 06/30/2009 7:38:19 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Free ThinkerNY

bttt


13 posted on 06/30/2009 7:38:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (Duke University official offers to SELL a black five year old for rape parties & the MSM looks away?)
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To: All
Secretary Gates has an Intelligence background vs an “operational” professional career — and therein lies the core problem with this gent.

Although I don't fault his Intel (02) qualifications, Gates has none of the real-world operational (03) seasoning to flavor his decision-making process — and the Secretary's performance has so reflected since his appointment.

The tragic aspect of this important detriment is that TOTUS has only his fellow Marxist thugs and Clinton to balance the national security ledger.

Result: The likelihood of potentially catastrophic national strategic and even tactical decision making.

God Save the United States of America !!!

14 posted on 06/30/2009 7:48:25 PM PDT by dk/coro
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To: Pallas

Gates is living proof that there is a malevolent, diabolical power structure in place to sabotage the power of the USA, in order to pave the way for World Government.

Weakening the effectiveness of our military branches as fighting forces is just one of many frontal assaults that are being simultaneously mounted against our power, prestige, and sovereignty.

Gates is nothing less than a paid saboteur, who happens to do his work mostly in the open.


15 posted on 06/30/2009 7:56:43 PM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: HotLead61

Gates does what he’s told by Obama. Gates does nothing on his own.


16 posted on 06/30/2009 8:04:03 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

I don’t disagree. But Hussein & Gates are both taking orders (and they are both saboteurs).


17 posted on 06/30/2009 8:22:37 PM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Gates says he wants to soften gay expulsion rules

Yuch, what happens in private should stay private. Some editors love to play with words.

18 posted on 06/30/2009 8:24:51 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: muawiyah

19 posted on 06/30/2009 8:35:42 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gates is Bush’s guy. Not very surprising after all.
Bush always needed one of his cronies to make up his mind.
Unfortunately, regarding faggotry, this mind-making was left to Cheney who was SO enamored of his turkey-baster grandbaby.


20 posted on 06/30/2009 8:41:04 PM PDT by cybervyk
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