Posted on 10/10/2009 6:10:58 PM PDT by VU4G10
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama pledged to end the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military in a speech Saturday, but acknowledged to a cheering crowd that the policy changes he promised on the campaign trail are not coming as quickly as they expected.
"I will end 'don't ask-don't tell,'" Obama said at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay civil rights advocacy group.
He did not give a timetable for the repeal of the law passed by Congress in 1993 and signed by President Bill Clinton, who also promised to repeal the ban on homosexuals in the military but was blunted by opposition in the military and Congress.
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Yes, and that is one of the major problems; how in the world do you billet people? In Neil and Bob are upstairs sodomizing each other, does that mean that Dick and Jane can be whoring around and have their own room?
I agree as well. I really don’t think anyone gives a damn these days even in the military. The media and liberals blow it out of proportion.
They are telling you homosexuality is incompatible with military service. What would the upside of this be? Hundreds of thousand of new enlistments from sodomites who’ve been waiting for the law to be repealed?
Rep. “JAG” Murphy only has 180 sponsors in the House. He better have some more or this may be able to be tied up. Hopefully we can get some Dems in the Senate to do the “wrong time” mantra and kill this in committee.
...or billeting in general, deployed or on their base. The policy is insane.
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