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Old 11-11-2009, 03:40 PM
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DADT Likely to Be Part of Defense Bill



By Kerry Eleveld

Repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” will likely be included as part of next year’s Department of Defense authorization bill in both chambers of Congress, Congressman Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, said Wednesday.

“Military issues are always done as part of the overall authorization bill,” Frank said, insisting that this has been the strategy for overturning the policy all along. “'Don’t ask, don’t tell' was always going to be part of the military authorization.”

Frank said he has been in direct communication with the White House, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, and other congressional leaders about the strategy for ending the 1993 ban on gays serving openly in the military.

Though some moderate Democrats have recently expressed concern about repealing the policy during a midterm election year, Frank said resolve at the White House has never wavered. “The Administration is totally committed to this and has been from the beginning,” he said.

Anecdotally, Frank recalled an incident earlier this year when Defense secretary Robert Gates made a statement to reporters suggesting that repeal was still an open question.

“There was a point where Gates said, ‘If we repeal don’t ask, don’t tell,’ and the next day he said, 'When we repeal don’t ask, don’t tell,’” said Frank. “That’s because Rahm called him up. The White House has been consistently committed.”

The Defense Department reauthorization bill would be voted on next spring and summer and would take effect October 1, 2010, according to Frank. But he added that discharges could potentially be stopped by executive order before the law goes into effect.

“Once the bill is passed, even if it hasn’t yet taken effect at that point, the president could justify a stop-loss order because it would no longer be the law -- it’s just a matter of time,” Frank explained.

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General: 'Serious concerns' over DADT

Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 2:08 PM by Domenico Montanaro


From NBC's Jim Miklaszewski

On Capitol Hill today, Army Chief of Staff, Gen. George Casey told the Senate Armed Services Committee he had "serious concerns" about attempting to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" while the U.S. military is actively engaged in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Casey suggested that implement the repeal of the ban against gays and lesbians openly serving in the military could be disruptive and hurt military readiness.

Casey, like Gen. Ray Odierno, top U.S. military commander in Iraq said yesterday, supports Defense Secretary Robert Gates' plan to take a year, poll the troops and study the impact of repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," then take another year to figure out how to implement the repeal.

Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the committee, raised some eyebrows when he suggested that a moratorium on enforcement of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" be slipped into the Defense Authorization Bill, that would protect gays and lesbians from being forced out of the military pending the Pentagon studies.

Sen. John McCain strongly opposed the idea and under tough questioning got the Secretary of Army John McHugh to also voice his objection to the moratorium.

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Exclusive: Tony Perkins Disinvited to Military Prayer Breakfast



It looks like speaking out against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy may have consequences. Just ask Tony Perkins.

The Brody File has learned that the Andrews Air Force base chaplain's office rescinded their prayer luncheon invitation to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins just two days after Perkins criticized President Obama's call for lifting restrictions on homosexuals in the military.

The National Prayer Luncheon takes place this Thursday Feb. 25 at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C. The theme is "Getting Back to the Basics." Perkins is an ordained minister and a Marine Corps veteran so he was asked to speak andaccepted. He was planning to give a devotional message not a political one.

However, after President Obama called on Congress to lift restrictions on homosexuals serving in the military, Perkins forcefully spoke out against it. Two days later, Perkins got the letter from the Andrews Air Force Base chaplain's office saying thanks, but no thanks -- the invitation was stripped.

The letter referred to past statements by the Family Research Council, saying the group is "incompatible in our role as military members who serve our elected officials and our Commander in Chief."

Tony Perkins calls it blacklisting and has this reaction:

"As one who took the oath to defend and protect our freedoms, I am disappointed that I've been denied the opportunity to speak to members of the military, in a non-political way, solely because I exercised my free speech rights in a different forum. It's ironic that this blacklisting should occur because I called for the retention and enforcement of a valid federal statute.

I am very concerned, however, that this merely foreshadows the serious threat to religious liberty that would result from repeal of the current military eligibility law.Such legislation would not merely open the military to homosexuals.It would result in a zero-tolerance policy toward those who disapprove of homosexual conduct.

Military chaplains would bear the heaviest burden.Would their sermons be censored to prevent them from preaching on biblical passages which describe homosexual conduct as a sin? Would they remain free to counsel soldiers troubled by same-sex attractions about the spiritual and psychological resources available to overcome those attractions?

Any chaplain who holds to the millennia-old tradition of Judeo-Christian sexual morality could be denied promotion, or even be forced out of the military altogether understand the untenable situation that this creates for chaplains and the men and women in uniform. I urge Congress, the President, and the top leadership of our military to place the constitutional guarantee of religious liberty ahead of the fashionable political correctness of a special interest group."

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Top Marine opposes possible repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'


By Roxana Tiron - 02/25/10 01:50 PM ET
The commandant of the Marine Corps told senators Thursday that he opposes lifting the ban on openly gay people serving in the military.

Gen. James Conway’s position on the repeal of the controversial law known as “Don’t ask, don’t tell” has not been a close-held secret, but on Thursday he publicly offered his personal opinion to the Senate Armed Services Committee — becoming the most senior military officer to openly express his opposition to the change of the Clinton-era law.

“My best military advice to this committee, to the secretary and to the president would be to keep the law such as it is,” Conway said. “At this point I think that the current policy works.”

Conway, however, indicated that he supported Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s yearlong study on how to implement the repeal of the ban within the military services.

This week, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and Chief of Naval Operations Gary Roughead also indicated in testimony before congressional committees that they would like to see the implementation study done before any changes are made, including a moratorium on the current law.

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