Posted on 04/07/2022 6:34:29 PM PDT by fwdude
In a landmark ruling, a federal district court has ordered the U.S. Department of Defense to end a longstanding Pentagon policy forbidding enlisted military service members from deploying in active duty outside the continental United States and being commissioned as officers if they have HIV.
Supporters hailed it as overdue legal affirmation that people receiving effective antiretroviral treatment for HIV are essentially healthy and pose no risk to others.
The judgment topples one of the nation’s last major pillars of HIV-related employment discrimination. Federal law has for decades barred employers from discriminating against people with HIV under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The U.S. military has stood alone as the sole U.S. employer maintaining such explicit discriminatory practices.
“This is one of the biggest rulings for people living with HIV and enshrining their protections under the Constitution in decades,” said Kara Ingelhart, a senior attorney at Lambda Legal, which along with a team of private-practice attorneys litigated the cases in question.
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Where are Mitch McConnell’s judges?
The deadly disease with civil rights....
Wait just a damned minute here.
The US military is now required to deploy HIV positive service members while at the same time they can kick out unvaccinated service persons?
Our country has gone completely insane.
L
Judge Leonie Brinkema, Bill Clinton appointee.
This was judge shopped, to be sure.
But don’t dare try to serve while unvaccinated.
Because, ya know...Science.
Meanwhile ...
Appeals court OKs Biden federal employee vaccine mandate
A federal appeals court has upheld President Joe Biden’s requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19
April 7, 2022
Have HIV - get a promotion - it’s ThEiR RiGhTs
Refuse the covid vax - get dishonorably discharged - it’s FoR ThEiR OwN SaFeTy.
Even the breathless wording of this insipid article shows the truth of this lie.
Damn right. Rush was absolutely right.
It's not just the disease, the treatments themselves pose significant health-harming risks, which include liver and kidney damage, compromised heart function, and significant bone loss. Many of the meds also alter a person's moods, posing a serious risk of psychotic break with reality and all the risk to personnel safety that implies.
Frigging crap-eating Feral “judges”. The greatest danger to American freedom and security. They all need to be in jail.
The judges are just a symptom of an illness much deeper: modern Democrats.
Amen.
Yep, there’s no chance that their infectious blood might be spilled and somebody else might be exposed to it.
🐂💩
One more reason why if I found myself to be a duly sworn uniformed member of the Armed Forces today I’d desert.
"in general, the U.S. military will not accept recruits diagnosed with diabetes" HIV A-OK. But not diabetes. Wut?
More likely a Hillary Clinton appointee.
ridiculous
you can still be infected by them regardless of whether their meds have it “under control”
Just remember one thing. It’s not “our” military any more, except that we’re still forced to pay for it. Not on our side and will not have a problem with shooting our whole families if ordered.
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