Tag Archives: Don't Ask Don't Tell

Pentagon recommends DADT repeal

By Jos | Published: December 1, 2010

TweetYesterday, on the 17 year anniversary of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell being signed into law, the Pentagon released its study on this controversial and discriminatory policy. The results are pretty clear: over 2/3 of service members believe ending DADT would have a positive, mixed, or no effect. Further, service members know they are already serving [...]

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Quick hit: Nancy Goldstein on awkward Thanksgiving meals

By Chloe | Published: November 22, 2010

TweetSpecifically, the one that will take place in the McCain household later this week. In a column at the American Prospect today, Nancy Goldstein points out two truths. Firstly, Thanksgiving at the McCain house is going to be really tense this year, what with Meghan, Cindy and John all publicly taking their different stances on [...]

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DADT Update: Court of Appeals issues stay requested by Obama administration

By Vanessa | Published: October 21, 2010

TweetWhat the fuck: A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a temporary stay of U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips’s Oct. 12 order in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States halting all enforcement of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. After DADT had been halted from enforcement [...]

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Military recruiters told to accept openly gay and lesbian applicants

By Miriam | Published: October 20, 2010

TweetAnd the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell saga continues! The Obama Administration (via the Justice Department) had asked the courts to place a stay (aka don’t enforce this yet) on the ruling from Judge Virgina Phillips that had placed an injunction on dismissals and investigations of military members based on the DADT policy. Yesterday she tentatively [...]

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Christine O’Donnell Compares DADT Repeal to Adultery

By Vanessa | Published: October 14, 2010

Tweet Pic via WaPo. Oh man. Via Think Progress, we find that at last night’s Delaware senate debate, O’Donnell took it upon herself to explain why repealing DADT is not okay: because they don’t condone other apparently comparable sins like adultery, after all: O’DONNELL: A federal judge recently ruled that we have to overturn Don’t [...]

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