{"id":20852,"date":"2010-10-14T22:20:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T02:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20852"},"modified":"2010-10-14T22:20:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T02:20:26","slug":"white-house-seeks-stay-of-dadt-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20852","title":{"rendered":"White House seeks stay of DADT ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost as though they&#8217;ve been set up (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/15\/us\/politics\/15military.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">NY Times<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saying it would appeal a ruling striking down the law that bans gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the United States military, the Obama administration on Thursday asked the federal judge who issued the ruling for an emergency stay of her decision. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Log Cabin Republicans, the gay group which brought the case to Virginia Phillip&#8217;s court room say it&#8217;s typical of the Obama Administration to ignore key constituencies;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are not surprised by the government\u2019s action, as it repeats the broken promises and empty words from President Obama  avowing to end \u2018don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 while at the same directing his Justice Department to defend this unconstitutional policy,\u201d said Dan Woods, a lawyer representing the group. \u201cNow that the government has filed a request for a stay, we will oppose it vigorously because brave, patriotic gays and lesbians are serving in our armed forces to fight for all of our constitutional rights while the government is denying them theirs.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m no champion of gays in the military, I&#8217;m starting to like this decision, at least over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost as though they&#8217;ve been set up (NY Times link); Saying it would appeal a &hellip; <a title=\"White House seeks stay of DADT ruling\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20852\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White House seeks stay of DADT ruling<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20852","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}