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Congress Overturns Ban of Gays Serving Openly, Sends Bill to Obama's Desk
Fox News ^ | Dec. 18, 2010

Posted on 12/18/2010 12:48:49 PM PST by Jess Kitting

Edited on 12/18/2010 1:10:23 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON -- In a landmark vote, the Senate on Saturday ended the Clinton-era ban on gays serving openly in the military, marking a major triumph for President Obama, liberals and the gay community.

The final vote to end the Pentagon's 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" policy was 65-31, drawing support from eight Republicans.

The bill now goes to the White House for Obama's signature. He is expected to sign the bill into law next week, a senior White House aide told Fox News.


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To: apronius

“Although, I do think this country was founded on the idea of majority rule.”

WRONG. WE are not a Democracy, but a Republic. The rule of Law... NOT the rule of majority.


301 posted on 12/18/2010 4:05:23 PM PST by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !When a majority of the American)
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To: panthermom

you know a few years ago I never had a problem with homosexuals but I saw them in a homosexual parade and the way they acted once they were together made me feel sick .
I then noticed that once they are in their groups they act like sick perverts but once they are away from their groups they try and deceive us into thinking they are just out for love.
In the end it is all about sex and how they get off and because of that they think that should be accepted as equal rights .
The more I found out about them and looked with open eyes instead of saying I have a friend who is a homosexual the more I found I was being conned by them
Well maybe we should give that equal right status to also men with animals or wives.

After all these people hang around at truck stops, public bathrooms etc and it is all about a quick get off.


302 posted on 12/18/2010 4:05:33 PM PST by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: tyke
He did not win by that much in Jan 2010. He will need that 25 % plus base support in 2012. Gays are very very vocal group in Mass with the MSLM gay Boston Globe support. The Mass Supreme Court has a new non gay Chief Justice. Mass will have Two Demo Rats Senators in 2012. Not a RINO and a Demo Rat.
303 posted on 12/18/2010 4:12:00 PM PST by NewEnglander
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To: onedoug
I fear my country just died.

It died a long time ago. At least it "jumped the shark" although Fonzie is long gone and the twin Evenrudes are out of gas. B-P Some say it died during the Whiskey Rebellion (1794), end of the Civil War (1865), The income tax (1913), World War I (1917) (IMHO, we should not have entered World War I), Women voting (1920), New Deal (1933-40), JFK shot (1963), The Pill and Sex Revolution (1960, late 1960's), the end of the Cold War (1991) (we don't have big, bad USSR anymore to worry about) or the election of the Kenyan Usurper (2008). Take your pick. I say that all here along with many others was like pulling a straw out of a game of "Kerplunk" where a marble or several here and there fell, but I think we really lost a lot of our marbles under Clinton and much more when the Kenyan Usurper was elected.
304 posted on 12/18/2010 4:12:35 PM PST by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: manc

And that is it. When they are in polite society they need to keep their deviant behavior to themselves. When they are able to be “open” they can’t help themselves.


305 posted on 12/18/2010 4:12:41 PM PST by panthermom
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To: tyke; Jim Robinson

IBTZ! TROLL ALERT! ZOT! DOUBLE ZOT!! AND TRIPLE ZOT!!!


306 posted on 12/18/2010 4:13:58 PM PST by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !When a majority of the American)
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To: Jess Kitting

If you didn’t see before, you now see what is of importance to the Democrats and RINO’s that voted for this, shoving aside the economy, high unemployment, increasing debt and such.

Nothing matters but appeasement of Gays who continue to force acceptance of their lifestyle choice upon others.

God Bless the USA? No, God Help the USA!


307 posted on 12/18/2010 4:19:02 PM PST by DakotaRed (What happened to the country I fought for?)
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To: Stepan12
I wonder if America needs a Pinochet to straighten things out?

The world's greatest intellectual, Thomas Sowell, Ph.d, warned that there may come a day when the American military just won't take it anymore.


I sometimes pray that we would have a Pinochet (see my tagline below) come along as long as the goal is the restoration of the Constitution after a short period of cleaning house. I'm a big fan of the "Ashes" series by William Johnstone where a general goes around and cleaning up the U.S. from the thugs and political correctness after an atomic war with the USSR/Russia, we might need to do this.

BTW, another author would have agreed with Thomas Sowell, Robert A. Heinlein. That was the premise of the book, "Starship Troopers" where in the future, the political correctness has almost killed us so the military and veterans rose up and took over. The society was quite libertarian but you could not vote unless you served a term in the military. He wrote this in 1959, the parallels to our world is striking, the PC movement, gangs of thugs in the streets, welfare bums and a war with Red China. Well not yet for the latter but it could happen.
308 posted on 12/18/2010 4:19:05 PM PST by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: manc

Piedmont Park in Atlanta is notorious for gay pick ups. The people that live around there have to pay for extra security because the sex is rampant, in parking lots, etc. Businesses have to pick up condoms every day before they open. People that live in high rises can hear it and see it! It is all gays, heterosexuals are NOT doing that! The gays want to equate their relationships with heterosexuals, yet never in my life have I heard of rampant hetero sex going on in parking lots and parks where they have to have special patrols.


309 posted on 12/18/2010 4:20:06 PM PST by panthermom
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To: Fantasywriter

That’s my understanding as well, but you can imagine that the DOD will be under great pressure to rapidly change the policy.

The libs know that Obama is the CIC. We do too. We need a new CIC, asap.


310 posted on 12/18/2010 4:22:44 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: panthermom

EXACTLY
I found that out.
They really pretend to be someone else in front of the straight person but once in their groups they are all about sex etc.I worked as a truck driver delivering beer and had ot deliver to these homosexual bars.

It was sick and the comments they made were disgusting, now I am no prude and have served but the perverted comments were sick.


311 posted on 12/18/2010 4:23:48 PM PST by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: tyke
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Thus I just don't see any way this change is ever going to be reversed ...
Oh, ye, of little faith. I've overturned before ... and yes, it had something to do with change ...
312 posted on 12/18/2010 4:24:20 PM PST by mlizzy (Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee ...)
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To: Jess Kitting; fieldmarshaldj; Impy

anal passage:

The eight Republicans who joined Democrats in passing the repeal were:
Sens. Scott Brown of Massachusetts
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Mark Kirk of Illinois
George Voinovich of Ohio
Richard Burr of North Carolina
John Ensign of Nevada
Susan Collins of Maine
Olympia Snowe of Maine.

Voinovich’s retiring, term runs out in Jan.
Richard Burr?
John Ensign?

bizarro.


313 posted on 12/18/2010 4:25:21 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Palin '12 begins in '11. In western New Hampshire pour moi.)
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To: Racehorse

That will be an interesting article to alter in the UCMJ.

What will they do? Remove the same sex part and just make it illegal for heterosexuals? That’s discriminatory.

What will happen is, like in all other areas of our society, they’ll work 24/7 to sexualize everything thus making it a moot point.

Kids growing up today are being groomed as sex maniacs or sex objects or both. It is sad.


314 posted on 12/18/2010 4:26:03 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: Inwoodian
I’ve never heard of a real-world homosexual dying to go in the service.

That's because the ones pushing it are REMF's who want to use the Military to continue forcing acceptance of their deviancy upon the rest of the nation.

They don't want to fight for America, but for the Gay Agenda. And, collect more freebies in the process.I wonder now how long before HIV & AID's becomes a "Service Connected" disability they will draw disability and free life health care from?

315 posted on 12/18/2010 4:27:46 PM PST by DakotaRed (What happened to the country I fought for?)
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To: newzjunkey
the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Israelis...haven't looked too effective in their latest outings.
316 posted on 12/18/2010 4:28:00 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: central_va
I don’t have a problem with it. Its silly to have to have people hide who they are. I’ve always thought there was a case to be made for banning homosexuality in the armed service but DADT is offensive and hypocritical. Its like saying a woman can be pregnant but she needs to hide it so people won’t have to face it. This is one fight that is now history.

IMO this deserves the ZOT.


Muffin is charging up her capacitors....

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Muffin: b. 8-21-1987 - d. 7-09-2004
317 posted on 12/18/2010 4:28:17 PM PST by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: palmer
If the sodomy ban stays, then homosexuality activity among service members is still forbidden.

As are some forms of heterosexual activity.

318 posted on 12/18/2010 4:29:42 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: KansasGirl
Burr, Ensign, Voinovich, Kirk, Murkowski, Scott Brown, Snowe and Collins.

I don't know about the rest, but I wonder if Snowe and Collins have something going on between them, they sure look like the type.
319 posted on 12/18/2010 4:29:55 PM PST by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: panthermom

no word of a lie.
My family and I went to MA for a visit, we took I95 and there is a road in MA called 128.
Anyway the MIL who we were going to see lived near and we had heard that a place called blue hills had to close at night but it was a nice drive on the way and off the highway.
Anyway it was closed at the time we got there because of the homosexuals and them having sex etc.
Anyway we wanted to freshen up before we got to the MIL and went to a public road side bathroom which runs adjacent to this blue hills.
We noticed at this bathroom there was about 7 or 8 men just standing there outside.
One man drive up and went in and a man followed him.
We sat there for a couple of minutes wondering if it were safe to go in because we did not know if it were drugs etc.
I mean a group of men some would be just standing there not talking to others etc.

Holy crap, it was a like a sausage factory of homosexuals , stopping off to have sex and then on to work.
sick it was , we drove off and asked a few people that night about it as they were locals.

They told us that all around there , the woods , the dog park the public bathrooms etc are all homosexuals for casual sex.
I said why does the police do not something about it and they told us that if they did the homosexual community and the GOV would clamp down on the cops an call them names etc.

It is sick and the mroe I found out about their agenda the more I am determined to fight them now


320 posted on 12/18/2010 4:31:30 PM PST by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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