Posted on 12/18/2010 6:57:49 PM PST by lbryce
The Senate on Saturday voted to strike down the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, bringing to a close a 17-year struggle over a policy that forced thousands of Americans from the ranks and caused others to keep secret their sexual orientation.
By a vote of 65 to 31, with eight Republicans joining Democrats, the Senate approved and sent to President Obama a repeal of the Clinton-era law, known as dont ask, dont tell, a policy critics said amounted to government-sanctioned discrimination that treated gay, lesbian and bisexual troops as second-class citizens.
Mr. Obama hailed the action, which fulfills his pledge to reverse the ban, and said it was time to close this chapter in our history.
As commander in chief, I am also absolutely convinced that making this change will only underscore the professionalism of our troops as the best-led and best-trained fighting force the world has ever known, he said in a statement after the Senate, on a preliminary 63-to-33 vote, beat back Republican efforts to block final action on the repeal bill.
The vote marked a historic moment that some equated with the end of racial segregation in the military.
It followed an exhaustive Pentagon review that determined the policy could be changed with only isolated disruptions to unit cohesion and retention, though members of combat units and the Marine Corps expressed greater reservations about the shift. Congressional action was backed by Pentagon officials as a better alternative to a court-ordered end.
Supporters of the repeal said it was long past time to abolish what they saw as an ill-advised practice that cost valuable personnel and forced troops to lie to serve their country.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
For those who do not understand what that means, let me explain. A life time check of around $41,000 per year, free drugs and free medical care, all on your tax dollar. There are vets injured in Iraq that get less in VA benefits.
With the levels of syphilis, HIV and STDs imagine YOUR cost to allow gays to bugger each other while on active duty. With STDs and HIV you cannot deploy to certain countries which means they can hang out at the local bath house while other men die for their country.
Sorry for the double post.
lol. Certainly feels like it. Ouch!
Congress is not tone deaf, they are stupid. This opens the door to huge problems. I foresee a rash of “hate speech” charges, sexual harassment, spread of aids, housing problems, etc, etc. What a bunch of SOBs.
Is this journalistic malpractice?
Before DADT, recruiters did ask, and affirmative answers meant that person was not getting into the military.
DADT meant the question wasn’t asked... but if homosexuality was discovered otherwise, they were processed for discharge.
For 17 years, the MSM has been purposefully misrepresenting DADT as if gays were allowed to join before it went into effect—the truth is, they never were.
This is a bad idea. Keeping gays out of the military has nothing to do with discrimination, and everything to do with protecting people. There are just too many situations in the military where there is no privacy, but at least men and women are segregated. Putting gays and straights together in those situations is no different than having coed dressing rooms, or showers. In some respects, it may be worse.
a policy critics said amounted to government-sanctioned discrimination that treated gay, lesbian and bisexual troops as second-class citizens. Mr. Obama hailed...
Oh the humanity
Join the Army - test positive for AIDS/HIV - draw 100% disability for the rest of your miserable life.
If you dont believe me check the VA regulations.
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I believe that they have passed another half baked law. There needs to be a differentiation between those people who are genuinely gay and those that are bisexual, tri-sexual, having sex with baked goods, or other forms of sex addictions that often times masquerade as "gay".
Those people who are mentally unstable have no place around loaded weapons or classified information regardless of their gender confusion. It will be up to the military to sort them out.
No Senator, you have wronged a right to be secure in your person. You have told Onan where to put his seed.
Chip, chip, chip. Progressive incramentalism on display yeat again for everyone to see. These people are very patient. 17 years to get this one through.
I wonder if this means they'll do away with separate bathing facilities for male and female soldiers? Sexual orientation doesn't matter, right?
No, I’m saying that everyone has the ability to control themselves. Homosexuality is not something beyond a persons control. It is an orientation, a lifestyle choice.
Thousands get molested and only a few manifest it as homosexuality. Homosexuality is a form of permanent sexual immaturity. It was and remains a sexual deviancy and a psychological disorder, despite opposite claims.
Take a listen here and learn how homosexuality came to be removed from the list of sexual deviancies by the American Psychiatric Association (APA): http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/all/play_music/play_full.php?play=204
It had nothing to do with science. It was an emotional and political act manipulated by a secret cabal of homosexual activists.
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“Like that will stop them. They will come for your kids and they won’t take no for an answer”
They have to have a military to take that approach. If they are having manpower trouble to start with, that would make enforcing their will problematic.
LOL. Great pic but that looks rather like, “Forward MINCE” to me.
LMAO!!!!
The leftist LIARS. Homosexual sex has ALWAYS been illegal in the military as are any number of perverted or disruptive activities.
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