Posted on 11/21/2010 11:18:34 PM PST by onyx
Signaling the growing seriousness of the Obama administration's commitment this year to ending the military's ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces, the Defense Department said Sunday that it will release a long-awaited report on the matter earlier than planned because senators are eager to vote on whether to repeal the policy.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has ordered the report to be released on Nov. 30, one day earlier than planned, "to support Congress's wish to consider repeal before they adjourn," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Sunday.
The Senate is slated to vote again on a defense policy bill that includes language that would repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy after the Thanksgiving recess. The measure did not advance in September. Several senators asked Gates last week to release the report early so the Senate Armed Services Committee could hold hearings on it before the full Senate votes. Several moderate senators have said they will not decide how to vote until they read the report.
Gates "has instructed his staff, without cutting any corners, to have everything ready a day sooner because he wants to ensure members of the Armed Services Committee are able to read and consider the complex, lengthy report before holding hearings with its authors and the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Morrell said in a statement.
Gates; Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and the report's co-chairmen, Army Gen. Carter Ham and Pentagon General Counsel Johnson, could testify before the committee, aides said.
The report is expected to conclude that the military can lift the ban on gays serving openly in uniform with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts, according to sources who shared details of the report with The Washington Post.
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Goodness, Gates is such a yesman, how did he ever rise to his position - I ask, but I know the sorry answer to that question.
get your barf bag out!
0bamadinejad’s new war against the military.
Quartering those with whom could be sexually attracted to you sounds fun for a pre teen, but not if you have to depend on your life.
Dunno about minimal risk even to “current war efforts” (and that certainly ignores what happens if the global fur really flies). I don’t think the elaborate attempts to forge anti-terrorism alliances with “moderate” Moose are going to be helped by the sudden appearance of “out” American GI’s. And the sexual harassment problems are going to skyrocket.
#2, That’s about the size of it.
Decent people will leave and the perverts will take over.
you can’t have a military with same sex EMOTIONALLY disturbed “couples” openly displaying their perversion. It will be a joke. It will be one more disaster in the making.
There won’t BE enough people in a gay Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force to keep it going. Something will have to give, under a saner political regime.
messing with fire.
Agreed...corrupt bastards.
However, I’m here to bump this...
“Romney is an unrepentant abortionist/statist lying political whore! Just to be absolutely clear, there will never ever be a RINO Romney campaign on FR!! If he somehow becomes the nominee, FR will be running a full-time campaign to DEFEAT him!! If you wish to support him then I suggest you sign off FR and onto Wankers for Mitt!!”
I absolutely adore who wrote this!
Has anybody reminded Madam Gates-and her sodomite Mullen
That a soldier with some security clearance -serving under DADT in the Intelligence field. After having broken up with his homosexual “friend” decided to throw a homosexual tantrum as an isolated incident and ended up “dumping” God only knows for sure how many “secret” documents on Wikileaks-purportedly as his Commander in Chiefs communistic dialectic of change
as confessed protest of DADT.Does anybody remind Gates of his buddy Bradley Manning?
Congress may have to exempt the USMC from their new law.
Unless they can replace Mr.Amos with one of their effeminate
friends.
Marriages will change to allow gays to marry and be mainstreamed.....it is DISGUSTING!! END TIMES.
Bradley Manning is GAY?? I should have KNOWN!!
The underplaying of this watershed event is mind boggling. This is the main event, nobody is paying attention.
Peter Principle.
delenda est...
The homo-mafia is up in arms. Ø must make them happy.
This one achievement by the homo-activists will simultaneously wedge several other of their demands forcefully into the forefront, and since our weak-kneed military leadership doesn't have the guts to object to this appeal, the other dominoes will fall effortlessly.
- This will be the most forceful affirmation of homosexuality as normal and healthy that the government has ever assumed.
- "Marriage" or "marriage-like" rights will immediately be demanded by the homo-activists in the military and those associated. By default, this radical redefinition of a foundational institution will have to be extended to everyone.
- Horrendous "sensitivity training" will be forced on all military personnel, and any individuals even remotely tangential to the military. Any objection to homosexuality will be career limiting, at best, or punishable by dishonorable discharge, at worst.
- Normal servicemen won't be able to object to rooming, bunking, showering with open homosexuals under the threat of being "insensitive" and disrupting "unit cohesion." Sodomites will literally have Carte Blanc to do what they want with impunity.
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