AMA votes to seek repeal of gay military ban
(Chicago) The nation’s largest doctors’ group has agreed to join efforts to repeal the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy.
The American Medical Association also voted to declare that gay marriage bans contribute to health disparities for gay couples and their children.
Both gay-rights policies were adopted Tuesday at the AMA’s interim …
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‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ isn’t on anyone’s agenda in the near future, says Politico (hat tip: Towleroad):
“Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says the Senate is swamped and has little time on the schedule for this fight. The Pentagon brass is reticent and wants a go-slow strategy, while a majority …
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The US military said that it found no evidence that US soldiers helped in Iraqi gay murders.
Tags: Gay Military, Military Gay, MurdersNY Sen. to introduce bill to stop gay military discharges?
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) may introduce a bill in the Senate later this week to put an 18-month moratorium on discharges under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
It would be the first time since the vote on the military ban in 1993 that Senators would be forced to publicly state their stand …
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A military review panel recommended Tuesday that National Guard Lt. Dan Choi, the gay Arabic translator who became a national figure in fighting the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy after declaring his sexuality on television, be discharged from the service. The four-member Federal Recognition Board of Army officers in Syracuse, N.Y., had no recommendation Tuesday for how the 28-year-old should be discharged. It’s recommendation that the Army no longer recognize Choi as an officer must be approved by the First Army commander and the chief of the National Guard Bureau before Choi would be discharged.
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Nunn: Probably time to review gays in military policy
Sam Nunn, a former Democratic senator from Georgia, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that it’s “probably time” to review the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy concerning gay people in the military.
Nunn, a conservative Democract who was one of his party’s experts in military matters, was a key advisor to President Barack Obama during the transition.
See what Nunn had to say:
Nunn: Probably time to review gays in military policy
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Military still studying effects of lifting gay ban
The military is reviewing the potential effects of lifting the gay ban and will continue to enforce the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, said Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “I think it’s important to also know that this is the law, this isn’t a policy. And for the rules to change, a law has to be changed,” Mullen said. Google/The Associated Press * Tags = gay men gay news lesbian news transgender bisexual
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Uruguay to lift gay military ban
Uruguay to lift gay military ban
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A new report says Obama has the power to stop gay military discharges without Congressional action.
Tags: Congressional Action, Gay Action, Gay Military, Military DischargesGay Military Ban Architects Admit Deception
And last night, things got even more interesting when Dr. Nathaniel Frank, senior research fellow at the Palm Center, went on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show and said “don’t ask” advisors now admit the policy was a deliberate deception based on no empirical evidence.
Frank, author of Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America, told openly lesbian Rachel Maddow that military advisors to Clinton have admitted to the deception.
“They said it was based on nothing,” Frank told Maddow. “It was rooted in their own prejudices and fears. They even said they didn’t know what sexual orientation meant.”
“Instead they crated this unit cohesion argument. Which is the idea that openly gay service will somehow undermine unit cohesion and that you have to force service members to lie in order to preserve unit cohesion. Instead of the other way around, that forcing people to lie actually has its own impact on unit cohesion.”
Frank agreed with Maddow’s statement: “A key advisor to this panel admitted full-stop that the unit cohesion argument was completely made up out of whole cloth.” See Gay Military Ban Architects Admit Deception
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