{"id":21579,"date":"2010-12-19T18:17:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T22:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21579"},"modified":"2010-12-19T18:21:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T22:21:38","slug":"the-intellectual-vacuum-that-surrounds-dadt-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21579","title":{"rendered":"The intellectual vacuum that surrounds DADT debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s one quote that <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20101219\/D9K72KI80.html\">Associated Press<\/a> has been running in a majority of their seemingly endless updates of the Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell repeal;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In New York, home to one of the nation&#8217;s largest gay communities and a gay pride parade whose grand marshal this year was an openly gay, discharged serviceman, 28-year-old Cassandra Melnikow glanced at a news ticker in Times Square announcing the repeal and said: &#8220;Excellent! It&#8217;s about time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see what difference (sexual orientation) makes in the fighting military,&#8221; said Melnikow, a public health researcher. &#8220;What&#8217;s the big deal?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then why were you homosexuals making such a big deal about it, if sexual orientation doesn&#8217;t make a difference? <\/p>\n<p>I expect all of these people to be lined up outside their local recruiters&#8217; station tomorrow morning;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DADT-React.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DADT-React.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DADT React\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DADT-React.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DADT-React-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ac\/20101219\/pl_ac\/7433106_celebrity_reaction_to_dont_ask_dont_tell_repeal_1\">Lady Gaga and Katy Perry are happy<\/a>. That&#8217;s something we can all appreciate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s one quote that Associated Press has been running in a majority of their seemingly endless &hellip; <a title=\"The intellectual vacuum that surrounds DADT debate\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21579\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The intellectual vacuum that surrounds DADT debate<\/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-21579","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\/21579","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=21579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}