{"id":20891,"date":"2010-10-19T15:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20891"},"modified":"2010-10-19T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:41:57","slug":"recruiters-told-to-accept-openly-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20891","title":{"rendered":"Recruiters told to accept openly gay applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101019\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/us_gays_in_military_recruiting\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Department of Defense says it accepting openly gay recruits in response to the judicial decision made last week that the Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell is unconstitutional.   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Defense Department said it would comply with the law and had frozen any discharge cases. But at least one case was reported of a man being turned away from an Army recruiting office in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith on Tuesday confirmed that recruiters had been given top-level guidance to accept applicants who say they are gay.<\/p>\n<p>Recruiters also have been told to inform potential recruits that the moratorium on enforcement of &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; could be reversed at any point, if the ruling is appealed or the court grants a stay, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It figures that the PC crowd at DoD would construe the withdrawal of DADT as a reason to open the floodgates. I&#8217;m still not convinced that thousands or hundreds or even tens of gays are now going to flood into the recruiters&#8217; offices and crowd their way into the military. <\/p>\n<p>This whole fight was for the gesture not to give anyone some &#8220;right&#8221;. And I wouldn&#8217;t doubt that the judge made her decision in cahoots with the Justice Department to give Obama the chance to vote &#8220;present&#8221; right before the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still the UCMJ&#8217;s Article 125 to deal with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the Department of Defense says it accepting openly gay recruits in &hellip; <a title=\"Recruiters told to accept openly gay applicants\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20891\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recruiters told to accept openly gay applicants<\/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":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891","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=20891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}