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Senate Passes Bill to Lift Military Gay Ban
WSJ On-Line ^ | 12/18/10 | NATHAN HODGE

Posted on 12/18/2010 1:13:48 PM PST by Pontiac

The Senate Saturday repealed the military's ban on gays serving openly in the military, by overturning the policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

Senators voted 63-33 to advance the bill to the floor, passing a 60-vote procedural hurdle. Final passage Saturday afternoon was 65-31.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0bamacare; 0bamanomics; 0bamaqueer; dadt; gayagenda; homosexualagenda; showandtell
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1 posted on 12/18/2010 1:13:51 PM PST by Pontiac
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To: GOP_Lady; Swordmaker

Ping


2 posted on 12/18/2010 1:14:56 PM PST by Pontiac
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To: Pontiac
They did this after they were dis-elected.

Disgusting.

3 posted on 12/18/2010 1:16:40 PM PST by Regulator (Watch Out! Americans are on the March! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
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To: Pontiac

Years ago, when I was younger and — argueably — more foolish than now, I loved a lady. We had a young daughter and had started another child. I was looking forward with happy anticipation to that second child but my lady was not. Instead, she saw that child as an embarassment to be avoided so she chose to abort it. Of course, I had no say in the matter — the father never does — so I sat at home with our daughter, watching the clock and waiting.

Since then, I have learned of a man and a woman whose son was condemned to death for a terrible murder. They too sat home, watching the clock and dying inside. I think I know how they must have felt.

Today I sat at my computer, watching the vote in the Senate with much the same feeling of dread and overwhelming sadness at the impending doom of our country.

Oh, I know that the end of DADT won’t kill America but with the Healthcare monstrosity, which will never be repealed, only “modified”, plus all the lesser bills, rules and regulations already in the pipeline to “fundamentaly change America”, the greatest country in the history of the world will, within a generation, be reduced to third-world status alongside such luminaries as Kenya, Bangladesh and Haiti. By that point we may be reduced to asking for aid from the likes of France and Italy.

I think I’ve lived too long.


4 posted on 12/18/2010 1:17:31 PM PST by oldfart (Obama nation = abomination. Think about it!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping


5 posted on 12/18/2010 1:20:27 PM PST by Pontiac
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To: oldfart
I think I’ve lived too long.

Thanks to the Democraps, Obama and the Obama Health Care Act you don’t have to worry about that much longer.

6 posted on 12/18/2010 1:22:36 PM PST by Pontiac
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Basically the military considers all recruits as gays who need to become real soldiers and men, but this means this policy is done.

I know some gay but manned up soldiers who are mad as hell their new peers will have to be “respected”, treating them as if they had to play the begging dogs.

The liberal power fantasy goes on to its destruction.


7 posted on 12/18/2010 1:23:00 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrates Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Pontiac

Being ex military I don’t think this is the catastrophe many would believe except in a political way (it’s a loss for our side and yes the American people). Soldiers have their own way of handling these things and those of you who served well know what I mean.


8 posted on 12/18/2010 1:23:16 PM PST by 101voodoo
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To: oldfart

Sadly, many younger people have been conditioned for the last 30 years for this transformation. Many really don’t comprehend what it means to have economic liberty and other freedoms. They fear their government and are more than happy to conform. This road only leads to tyranny. I hope to be dead when America dies with a whimper.


9 posted on 12/18/2010 1:24:17 PM PST by Comparative Advantage
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To: 101voodoo

I call B$, on that.


10 posted on 12/18/2010 1:26:40 PM PST by itsahoot (We the people, allowed Republican leadership to get us here, only God's Grace can get us out.)
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To: oldfart

Today is the second time I have felt the same way as you are now. Health care was the first. I sit here and watch the Nation spin down the hole thru debts that will never be paid, a marxist take over of the Govt. and now sanctioning homosexuality. I joined with thousands of Americans last November to protest and remove from power these people only to be stabbed in the back by my own party. I to am just sick.


11 posted on 12/18/2010 1:26:40 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: Pontiac

Well, this gives the Taliban and Al Qaeda something else to be pissed off at us about. If I were still in the military, I’d make sure that they’d never capture me alive.


12 posted on 12/18/2010 1:28:32 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
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To: Pontiac
The whole meme about a ban is BS, there was NO ban, only requirement was to keep their mouth shut about where they want to stick it.

Why do the Republicans always let the dimwits control the dialogue?

13 posted on 12/18/2010 1:29:25 PM PST by calex59
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If I was soldier, I could live with the knowledge someone was gay. I don’t care if they’re doing it, as long as they don’t make it MY business. Live and let live.


14 posted on 12/18/2010 1:30:51 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Pontiac
Now will the lift the ban on chaplains who are now restricted as to Christian worship services?
16 posted on 12/18/2010 1:31:50 PM PST by maine-iac7 (We Stand Together of We Fall Apart)
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When they reveal the vote tally we need to keep a record so we know who to hold accountable when the gay lobby lawsuits start flying because someone was reprimanded for having sex in the shower or showing up in drag at the Px while off duty.


17 posted on 12/18/2010 1:33:13 PM PST by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: Pontiac

If I was soldier, I could live with the knowledge someone was gay. I don’t care if they’re doing it, as long as they don’t make it MY business. Live and let live.


19 posted on 12/18/2010 1:33:43 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
If I were still in the military, I’d make sure that they’d never capture me alive.

When they take prisoners they don’t seem to keep them long. Just long enough to make a video.

They are savages and barbarians (not really worthy even of that name).

20 posted on 12/18/2010 1:34:12 PM PST by Pontiac
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