{"id":2839,"date":"2010-09-10T00:57:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T07:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2010-09-10T00:57:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T07:57:32","slug":"ask-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/10\/ask-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask!! Tell!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The good news for our LGBT friends continues.&#160; This district court\u2019s decision took me completely by surprise, and I welcome it.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DADT.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 2px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"DADT\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DADT\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DADT_thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a> A federal judge in Riverside declared the U.S. military\u2019s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional Thursday, saying the \u201cdon&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell\u201d policy violates the 1st Amendment rights of lesbians and gay men<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips said <strong>the policy banning gays did not preserve military readiness, contrary to what many supporters have argued, saying evidence shows that the policy in fact had a \u201cdirect and deleterious effect\u2019\u2019 on the military<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips said she would issue an injunction barring the government from enforcing the policy. However, the U.S. Department of Justice, which defended \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d during a two-week trial in Riverside, will have an opportunity to appeal that decision\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/09\/federal-judge-declares-us-military-ban-on-openly-gay-service-members-unconstitutional-.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We owe our thanks to all our service people, regardless of sexual orientation.&#160; We have lost far too many qualified and dedicated people to this draconian policy, and I call on the Obama administration to let this decision stand.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news for our LGBT friends continues.&#160; This district court\u2019s decision took me completely by surprise, and I welcome it. A federal judge in Riverside declared the U.S. military\u2019s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional Thursday, saying the \u201cdon&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell\u201d policy violates the 1st Amendment rights of lesbians and gay men. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/10\/ask-tell\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}