{"id":23176,"date":"2011-05-02T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23176"},"modified":"2011-05-02T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:32:40","slug":"obama-asks-court-to-maintain-dadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23176","title":{"rendered":"Obama asks court to maintain DADT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration has asked an appeals court to allow them to keep DADT in place until the end of the year according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/special-reports\/don-t-ask-don-t-tell\/obama-wants-to-maintain-ban-on-open-gays-for-now-1.142363\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a filing, the Justice Department asked the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to suspend legal proceedings while the government implements a federal law repealing &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell,&#8221; the 1993 statute barring military service by gays and lesbians who disclose their sexual orientation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I applaud the administration for waiting on the services to get ready to implement the new directions, but i don&#8217;t see any of the wailing from folks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetvoice.com\/\">Dicksmith<\/a> who seems to have busied himself with cutting and pasting White House press announcements &#8211; which is what his posts are anyway. But, if it were a McCain Administration, Dicksmith would be spitting mad and calling names, but since it&#8217;s this administration, not a peep.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s another example that the Obama Administration discovered that being the Anti-Bush Administration is harder than they thought it would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration has asked an appeals court to allow them to keep DADT in place &hellip; <a title=\"Obama asks court to maintain DADT\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23176\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama asks court to maintain DADT<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23176","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=23176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}