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    Army to suspend DADT discharges, accept gay recruits

    Protester in 2007 (AP/Susan Walsh)The Pentagon said today that it will cease processing the discharge of soldiers for being openly gay and that the services will begin to accept gay and lesbian recruits, The Army Times reports.

    Earlier this week, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered an immediate end to the military's "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy. In its decision, the appellate court found that the policy violates the constitutional rights of gay people to be treated equally under the law. Congress had voted to repeal the military ban in December 2010, but the Pentagon said it needed more time to train troops before the new policy could start. The Defense Department and the Obama administration have yet to officially certify the repeal, and once they do, the new policy would take another 60 days to go into effect.

    It's unclear if the government plans to appeal that court's ruling to the Supreme Court, which could at least provisionally reinstate the original timeline for ending "Don't ask."

    Only one servicemember has been discharged under the law since last year's successful repeal vote in Congress. Several Air Force members have voluntarily requested they be discharged under the law.

     

    1,365 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 mths ago
      Gays and liberals ought to be exterminated. No society in history has succeeded with either or.
    • Just zis guy  •  10 mths ago
      It's about time we practiced what we preached...equality.
      • Red Baron 10 mths ago
        Tell it to the goats and sheep.----Your equals.
      • Fedupwith Libs 10 mths ago
        It's not equality and never has been. It's about legitimizing and forcing acceptance for this vile repulsive depraved sexual behavior (homosexuality),
      • To the Point 10 mths ago
        equality of holes
    • JannaB  •  10 mths ago
      It's as simle as this: DESCRIMINATION IS UN-AMERICAN. If you descriminate, you are violating the preamble of our constitution where it states that "all men are created equal". If you are in the military and have taken your oath of enlistment and your opinion is contrary to that of the statement in our constitution, keep it to yourself. You are sworn to uphold the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
      I just don't understand service members that descriminate against their own fellow service members. So you mean to tell me that you're willing to go to a foreign country and die protecting ALL American citizens(both gay and straight) and the nationals of the country in which you are serving, but you're not willing to allow people with different sexual habits than yours serve around you?
      --heteroVeteran
      • SpringerRider 10 mths ago
        So that means that I should have married the first woman that approached me rather than selecting my wife? Choosing her was teh ultimate act of discrimination!!
        All women are not created equal. She is the best.
      • Buga Buga 10 mths ago
        Gays are not created equal to Straight People. They are immoral and thus sick and perverted.
      • Ralph 10 mths ago
        @Bug
        Leave my country! My country has a constitution that requires ALL citizens to be treated equally by the law.
    • Rin  •  10 mths ago
      Discrimination is a luxury that can't be afforded on the field. Gay, straight, female, male, black, white, whatever. On the battlefield, there is only one, and that is soldier.
    • WickedW  •  10 mths ago
      I'm sure Sun Tzu and Alexander The Great are mocking our resistance to this from the afterlife. It must seem so silly to them.
      • David M 10 mths ago
        there were whole legions of homosexuals armies
      • tri-stater 10 mths ago
        our fore-fathers are spinning in their graves
      • Skeptic 10 mths ago
        Let them spin.
    • mark s  •  10 mths ago
      90% of the soldiers are just a few drinks away from being gay. get a few beers in them and they dont care who or what they do. so whats wrong with someone being open about it.
      • Red Baron 10 mths ago
        How would you know Mark,the Army wouldnt accept a retarded FAT SLOB kweer like yourself. SCUMBAG.
      • Fedupwith Libs 10 mths ago
        Gay fantasy.
      • Ralph 10 mths ago
        No, Fedup, many that cruise restrooms are straights looking for a quick BJ. A drunk soldier who hasn't connected with a woman may very well accept a BJ when their inhibitions are down. If you close your eyes you cannot tell the difference.
    • Mike  •  10 mths ago
      I don't want recruits that are more interested in their sexual desires than in protecting my country.
      • Neil 10 mths ago
        If that was the case, they wouldn't have joined the armed forced in the first place.
      • Roderick 10 mths ago
        I'm not in the military, but by your comment I'm guessing you aren't either, and don't hang around military bases, where [talking about] having sex (with women presumably) and drinking yourself silly are the main occupations off-duty. And do you know of some test that the military gives its STRAIGHT recruits to make sure they're not too dominated by sexual desires? Earth to Mike: gays aren't any more obsessed with sex than are straight people. Oh by the way, how obsessed are YOU with sex?
      • Ralph 10 mths ago
        Mike, there are better occupations for people primarily interested in sex than joining the military. You obviously have not read anything about the gays who have been in the military during DADT. Many are quite distinguished, as in decorated fighter pilots.
    • ciscirro455  •  10 mths ago
      there goes the neighborhood!!!
    • James W  •  10 mths ago
      As long as they can kill and don't try to stick their gun in my foot locker, $$$ ever.
    • Thomas  •  10 mths ago
      The Army is forming a new unit. It's to be called the "Rump Rangers"
    • JohnH  •  10 mths ago
      honestly it's down right sick and I oppose this. where did gays come from i asked myself...did they come on the mayflower? sickening. what would George Washington say about this? obviously there is a certain opposition within our nation. I say this to all my fellow American's who have forgotten what life is like. you see the hate that those gays have put into every American and they use our own national history as a shield something they read in a text book. I say all gays should be gathered and put into a society. Just as we Americans moved the Indians. If they want their own army fine let them have it but not our great American military. you have to look at the timeline. How long did it take for so many gays to appear?
      Google first american gay person. you will be surprised that there isn't one on record.
    • YeaowlY  •  10 mths ago
      we don't vote on equal rights, majority opinion is irrelevant, we are not a open democracy.
    • pyite  •  10 mths ago
      Oh and let the illegals serve too so they can die for our country, and earn their loyalty to the USA.
    • Justa' Seed  •  10 mths ago
      ...engorge the enemy soldier..........................
    • Justa' Seed  •  10 mths ago
      ...our enemies just might surrender now and end the war.. out of fear of being captured by the U.S. military and what might take place..
    • Jim M  •  10 mths ago
      Other armies around the world have had openly gay personnel for years so what is the big deal.
    • Smuckers  •  10 mths ago
      I volunteered in 1963 feeling it was my patriotic duty.. I sure wouldn't do that now! It's okay if a gay person serves but they've taken over the military! Makes me want to puke..
    • Southern Pride  •  10 mths ago
      Look, I am uncomfortable taking a leak in a public restroom latrene for fear of someone gazing. Imagine how it would fill to be in a shower with 12 other guys and wondering which ones are gay and and getting excited over your male organ. It is wrong, sinful, disgusting and I hope enlistment drops to the point that America can no longer protect herself....Its time for Armageddon....
    • Justme  •  10 mths ago
      Geez, people are such bigots! As long as it isn't your wife, it isn't any of your business who *anyone* is sleeping with.
    • Tony S.  •  10 mths ago
      The Gay Plague is consuming America.
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