{"id":22782,"date":"2011-04-01T14:47:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T18:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22782"},"modified":"2011-04-01T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T18:47:29","slug":"sailor-who-outed-himself-given-reprieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22782","title":{"rendered":"Sailor who outed himself, given reprieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/dadt-could-be-history-by-end-of-summer-pentagon-says-1.139742\">Pentagon plans to repeal Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell<\/a> in midsummer, a three-judge panel voted unanimously to retain a sailor who posted pictures of himself on MySpace kissing another man almost a year-and-a-half ago. The defense called four witnesses to his character and the prosecution called none. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorneys also argued that given the imminent repeal of the 17-year-old policy, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus would be unlikely to approve the discharge. Defense Secretary Robert Gates directed in October that all discharges had to be expressly approved by the secretary of the service and the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness. Nobody has been discharged since then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was a victory, and we&#8217;re grateful to [Petty Officer 2nd Class Derek Morado] for lending his story and his voice to highlight the fact that servicemembers are still facing the discharge process, even 100 days after the law was repealed,\u201d GetEQUAL director Robin McGehee said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, a victory, but not a victory for the rule of law. It&#8217;s a victory for everyone who breaks laws they don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Pentagon plans to repeal Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell in midsummer, a three-judge panel voted &hellip; <a title=\"Sailor who outed himself, given reprieve\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22782\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sailor who outed himself, given reprieve<\/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-22782","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\/22782","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=22782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}