{"id":69171,"date":"2016-11-30T08:19:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T13:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69171"},"modified":"2016-11-30T08:19:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T13:19:45","slug":"congress-wont-draft-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69171","title":{"rendered":"Congress won&#8217;t draft women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/308014-congress-drops-plans-to-make-women-register-for-draft\">The Hill<\/a> which reports that Congress has stripped out a provision of the Defense Bill which would have required women to register for the draft. Apparently, drafting women would be &#8220;unnecessary culture-warring&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The provision had been included in the House version, but was stripped when it came to the House floor. Instead, the House-passed version required a review of the Selective Service System to see if it is still necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives pushed House and Senate negotiators to drop the provision, arguing that requiring women to register was putting \u201cculture wars\u201d above national security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, no, it&#8217;s called &#8220;equality&#8221;. If the draft was a good idea when only men were sent into combat, its a good idea when women can be sent, too. The Social Justice Warriors should be all over this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to The Hill which reports that Congress has stripped out a &hellip; <a title=\"Congress won&#8217;t draft women\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69171\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress won&#8217;t draft women<\/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":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69171","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=69171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}