pr.thinkprogress.org - 5/17/2009
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MILITARY Time To Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell During his campaign for the White House, President Obama pledged that he would push to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) -- the military's policy that bars gay men and women from serving openly. Since taking office, however, Obama and other ...
cbsnews.com - 5/19/2009
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Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell today said there are
no plans to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell"...
policy that prohibits openly gay troops from serving in the military. President Obama vowed to repeal the controversial 1993 policy during the ...
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Pentagon: No Plans To Repeal "Don't Ask" | Political ...
advocate.com - 5/19/2009
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Given the growing number of states where same-sex
couples can now marry, The Advocate asked White House...
press secretary Robert Gibbs during Monday's briefing what steps President Obama is taking to give those couples equal treatment at the federal ...
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Gibbs Questioned on DOMA Repeal | News
obsidianwings.blogs.com - 5/13/2009
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by hilzoy Lt. Daniel Choi, who recently came
out as gay, wrote a letter to Barack Obama,...
citing the values of honesty and integrity that he learned at West Point, and asking: "Please do not wait to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Please do not fire ...
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Uruguay lifts ban on gays serving openly in the military.
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... based on their political, ethnic or sexual identity.” Urugquay’s Deputy Defense Minister elaborated, “There were a series of rules … regarding the psycho-physical requirements (for entry into the armed forces) in which homosexuality was seen as a sexual identity disorder, and this is what is being repealed.” President Obama insists that he still intends to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which bans gays from openly serving in the U.S. military, but has not said when he will begin the process. ...
Uruguay lifts ban on gays serving openly in the military.
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... based on their political, ethnic or sexual identity.” Urugquay’s Deputy Defense Minister elaborated, “There were a series of rules … regarding the psycho-physical requirements (for entry into the armed forces) in which homosexuality was seen as a sexual identity disorder, and this is what is being repealed.” President Obama insists that he still intends to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which bans gays from openly serving in the U.S. military, but has not said when he will begin the process. ...
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