{"id":36014,"date":"2013-06-05T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36014"},"modified":"2013-06-05T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T13:28:05","slug":"same-sex-bennies-dadt-was-about-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36014","title":{"rendered":"Same sex bennies; DADT was about service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us this letter that he received today. It&#8217;s dated February, but this is the first I&#8217;ve heard about it. Remember that repealing the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy at the Department of Defense was about allowing gays to serve openly without having to &#8220;live a lie&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hagel-letter-same-sex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hagel-letter-same-sex-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hagel letter-same sex\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hagel-letter-same-sex-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hagel-letter-same-sex.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hagel-letter-same-sex2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hagel-letter-same-sex2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hagel letter-same sex2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hagel-letter-same-sex2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hagel-letter-same-sex2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Hagel-letter-same-sex2.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Throughout history, heterosexual couples weren&#8217;t able to sign &#8220;a declaration attesting to the existence of their committed relationship&#8221; and receive ID cards and the stuff normally attributed to married couples in the military without the benefit of the actual contract associated with marriage. I&#8217;m guessing they won&#8217;t be able to do that now, either. I&#8217;m guessing that&#8217;s Panetta&#8217;s signature at the bottom. I wonder how Hagel will handle this situation &#8211; yet another grenade Panetta tossed to him on the way out the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us this letter that he received today. It&#8217;s dated February, but this is the &hellip; <a title=\"Same sex bennies; DADT was about service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36014\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Same sex bennies; DADT was about service<\/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-36014","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\/36014","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=36014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}