{"id":18728,"date":"2010-04-21T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T19:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18728"},"modified":"2010-04-21T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T19:06:57","slug":"i-dont-think-senator-udall-knows-what-the-hell-he-is-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18728","title":{"rendered":"I don’t think Senator Udall knows what the hell he is talking about…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have nothing against Udall, but this is idiotic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I am a longtime advocate for repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which prohibits gay men and women from serving openly in the military, and today I had the chance to speak with three former service members discharged under that law. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the 17th million time:<\/p>\n

DADT is NOT the Law. DADT is a policy<\/strong> put in place by Clinton. As wiki helpfully reminds those who have forgotten:<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t ask, don’t tell (DADT) is the common term for the policy restricting the United States military from efforts to discover or reveal closeted gay, lesbian, and bisexual service members or applicants, while barring those that are openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual from military service. The restrictions are mandated by federal law Pub.L. 103-160 (10 U.S.C. \u00a7 654). Unless one of the exceptions from 10 U.S.C. \u00a7 654(b) applies, the policy prohibits anyone who “demonstrate(s) a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts” from serving in the armed forces of the United States, because “it would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you repeal DADT, THE POLICY, you are left with the law which dictates that homosexual acts are incompatible with military service. i.e. Gays get tossed out, whether they disclose their “gayness” or not. DADT was an effort to lighten the burden on homosexuals serving, removing that policy will hurt them.<\/p>\n

Is it too much to ask that our lawmakers actually understand the laws they are talking about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have nothing against Udall, but this is idiotic: I am a longtime advocate for repealing … I don’t think Senator Udall knows what the hell he is talking about…<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}