Breaking News: Military recruiters told to accept gay applicants

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  1. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101019/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_gays_in_military_recruiting_1

    WASHINGTON – A Pentagon spokeswoman says recruiters have been told that they must accept gay applicants, following a federal court decision striking down the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

    Spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said Tuesday that top-level guidance has been issued to recruiting commands informing them that the military's "don't ask, don't tell" rule has been suspended for now. Recruiters also have been told to inform potential recruits that the moratorium could be reversed at any point.

    Last week, a federal judge ordered the military to stop enforcing the 1993 law banning openly gay service members. The Justice Department is appealing the decision and has asked for a temporary stay.
     
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  2. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    About time, eh barfo?

    You said they couldn't promulgate the law.
     
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    hasoos Well-Known Member

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    It's amazing how in a country where everybody is supposed to have the same rights that we continually have to go to the courts to protect individual rights because nobody else will nut up and stick up for the people who are being treated badly. Hell if it wasn't for the courts and their bravery for standing up for peoples rights, we would probably still be living in a segregated country. It would be America. The land of the free unless you are black, female or homosexual.
     
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  4. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Segregation was a product of the courts. See Plessy v. Ferguson, which made "separate but equal" the law of the land until it was overturned many decades later by Brown v. Board of Education.

    The courts are giving the Pentagon a push, but the Pentagon is doing the right thing instead of fighting it further. Which it could.
     
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  5. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I wonder how this will change military logistics.
     
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  6. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    New meaning of "rear guard"
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    And "flanking"
     
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    I know you mean well but I don't need a history lesson, but thanks though.

    I am just angry that politicians won't do the right thing because they are all too concerned with the vote count. The problem being, that the best public servants are those that are unafraid to make an unpopular decision, but as long as it is the right decision, will make it.
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Obama could have done it early in his presidency and I don't think there would have been much to stop him.
     
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    Or a Christian.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Agreed.

    No, I said nothing of the sort. I did say that promulgate is a nice word.

    barfo
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Jesus was :devilwink:
     
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    He was born a Jew. A liberal Jew. :)
     
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    Jesus was a middle eastern Jew.

    btw, blazerprophet, how many more times are you going to pull the "christian victim" card? You've been riding that dead horse like a prostitute lately.
     
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    Instead, he's suing to bring back DADT.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Well you guys clearly have no sense of humor. None at all. Carry on...
     
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    I thought "liberal Jew" showed a sense of humour. I thought about adding "New York" to it, but thought that might be a bridge too far, what with the lack of a New York back then.

    Maybe YOU have no sense of humour.

    I like that theory better.
     
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    New York Jew would have been funnier BECAUSE of the bridge too far.
     
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    activist judges running craaaazy!
     
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  20. julius

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    The thing is, there wasn't a "New York" at the time. So that wouldn't make sense. And it would be too obvious. So I'm with Minstrel, maybe it is you who doesn't have a sense of humor. I support his theory.
     
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