Gays in military: ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ formally ends

Shiv Malik
Guardian
September 20, 2011

An 18-year-old law that prevented serving US military personnel from disclosing that they were gay has been formally repealed.

At one minute past midnight eastern time (0401 GMT), the controversial don’t ask don’t tell (DADT) law was abolished after its repeal was signed into law some nine months ago.

Introduced by President Clinton in 1993 as a compromise step to full equality, DADT allowed gay and lesbian members of the military to serve only if their sexuality remained secret or was not reported.

The Servicemembers Legal Defence Network estimates that since the law’s introduction, 13,000 gay men and lesbians have been discharged after their sexual orientation was revealed.

In some cases dismissals were made on the basis of testimony from jilted lovers or those with personal grievances.

Barack Obama had pledged to overturn DADT during his 2008 election campaign, but action on the issue appeared stalled until his January 2010 state of the union speech. Injecting fresh energy into the cause Obama said: “This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are.”

The call was met with stony silence from members of the military seated in front of the president, who is also commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

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26 Responses to “Gays in military: ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ formally ends”

  1. It’s amazing, you all want freedom, but you will deny it to others. There are dictators within the Patriot Movement, and it shows in everyone of you who spews vile hatred for people. This is the problem with America, people are indoctrinated by hate preached from the pulpits. You are all no different than the people of Nazi Germany, who went along with the hatred spewed from Hitler and history will remember you as that.

    God will judge everyone of you. You will be judged on the fruits of your labor. God is no longer with this country, he has stepped back and is now watching the destruction. There were good people in Germany who stood outside of the status quo, likewise there will be here in this country during this time.

  2. Did anyone else watch the first episode of the tv program One Man Army? A civilian weapons expert beat out an ex-Marine, Navy Seal, and a cop. Ninety percent of the douche homophobes posting on this thread couldn’t complete one of the challenges on this program. And at the end of the show he proclaims to be gay. I would rather have a ass kicking homo fight next to me then a tax dollar funded pussy any day.

    • Congradulations. You watched TV propaganda.

      Hey dude, would you cut your hand open, dedicate in your hand, then rub the feces into your open wound?
      Because you MUST justify such an ignorant act to justify what a pair of butt pirates do.

      What REAL MAN would want partakers of such filth around him?

      • Sgupif auto correct…
        That was supposed to say “deficate in your hand…”

  3. Some people talk about freedom and liberty yet spout hate against people who are gay. My best friend is a lesbian, a Ron Paul supporter and a fighter of the NWO – stop the hate and our numbers will grow.

    I know a lot of people say, “The bible says”, “God says”, etc… Learn to live and let live and you will be better for it. Hate will get us nowhere.

    • Agreed.

    • Your friend us happy? Or did you misuse the word GAY to refer to a Sodomite?
      There is no strength in a nation which adheres to such vile filth.

      And tell your “friend” to stay away from children. Since its her choice why she won’t be able to reproduce with her “mate”.

      • At the Ron Paul Rally in Reno, NV, a Baptist Preacher, political activist spoke about Christians, and I agree 100% with him. Godgunsgutsglory is a Christian, and all mainstream Christians, Evangelical Christians are warmongers and are absolutely not speaking for Christ, or our Lord.

        Sys, I agree the Patriot Movement is filled with hypocrites, people who want their freedom, but will not grant others the right to their freedom. They will attack people for thinking differently, for defending others as I am sure we are about to encounter.

        GodsGuns is a perfect example of this hypocrisy, and this is why the upcoming Revolutionary War will be a long arduous process. They have been brainwashed, indoctrinated, told how to think, and all of this came from their pulpits of worship.

        People need to know, that when this all goes down, we will not have to only worry about the Elitists, and the corrupt Government, we will have worry about people like GodsGuns waging a religious war against the rest of us.

  4. If they are willing to die for you let them.

    • Personal Liberty means anyone can fight for there own Personal Liberty, we need to stop putting people into groups. We are all Americans. How bout they say anyone who has had a mullet can not join the millitary.

  5. and other SO CALLED Christan say “support our troops”

    murdering sodomites, I don’t support that!

  6. This will be the end of the military as we know it and will work against the ruling cabal making the soldiers more likely to side with Us the People when it hits the fan. Pent up mutiny will show in due time.

  7. Gays were already in the military just not openly gay, nothing has changed… A few words on paper changes nothing.

  8. It’s a sad day for the military.

  9. Gays in the military?? A perfect move to weaken our military even more! Openly allow the military to be overrun by a bunch of boner sportin sissies! Not only it will weaken our military but it will most surely discourage people from signing up. I have no problem accepting the fact that f***ets exist but the problem here is that f**s are not the same. SICK disgrace to our human race! They represent the something that should not be, an error in which they exist. They are the example of faulty and flawed. They make happen something that shouldn’t. …only an anomaly!

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  11. Now Blackwater can rejoice!

    Only an extremely informed member of society would get what i just said.

    • Is it something to do with Blackwater using names of the sodomite Knights Templar as their call names?

  12. As a Marine (73-76) we would have been disgusted to have an openly
    gay person living in the barracks. Having a gay live directly with men
    is like having a man live with a barracks full of young females. Both are going to be walking around with a hard-on and peeking every chance.
    The fact is, gays are disgusting and nasty even eating sh*t!
    What next in this sick society? Pedophiles being glorified!

    • Pedophiles are already glorified! Barney Frank. Kevin Jennings. Etc.

    • Did you really have to bring up your past “service” as if it were some badge of honor? You’re living proof that people were retarded even in those days, so what if gays want to join the military they’ll just be cannon fodder along with the other retards who join to serve corporate interests. How exactly are gays anything more disgusting than what you see on tv on a daily basis, are you sure you aren’t sucking a man’s cock as we speak Realdickseeker?

  13. George Washington though enough of America that he felt there should be an organized military service to defend it– and made a PUBLIC policy getting rid of those who would decimate its effectiveness– which included “gays”– which also is the origin of “getting drummed out of the military”– he made it a PUBLIC CEREMONY (and WARNING to others similarly minded) to show the population that he would lead a group of soldiers with ONE thing on their minds: to kick the enemy and THEIR “gays” OUT of OUR COUNTRY!

    • Amen!
      Here is the process of how a person who rejected God, is in turn rejected and given over to filthy egotism. Something that in turn brings down a nation which “tolerated” such wicked filth!

      Romans 1:22-28 (KJV)
      22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
      23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
      24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
      25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
      26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
      27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
      28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

      • Here is Go’s example of his wrath he’ll pour out on the wicked fallen angels.
        He uses filthy sodomites as an example such wrath!

        Jude 1 kjv
        6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
        7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
        8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

  14. time to quote bill hicks;

    “Gays in the military . . . here’s how I feel about it, alright? Anyone . . . DUMB enough . . . to want to be in the military, should be allowed in. End of ‘effing’ story. That should be the only requirement.”

    “We are the military; is that a village of children and kids? Where’s the napalm? (explosion) I don’t want any gay people hanging around me when I’m killing women and kids. I just don’t wanna see it.”

    ahahahahahahaha

    • True story!

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