Judge Virginia Phillips of the Federal District Court for the Central District of California yesterday ordered a worldwide injunction banning enforcement of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law. The 17-year-old ban on open gays serving in the military “infringes the fundamental rights of United States servicemembers and prospective servicemembers and violates (a) the substantive [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
The DADT Injunction: A Gift or a Curse for Obama?
Posted in Law, Politics, tagged Constitutionality, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Military on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Whatever Happened to the DADT Repeal?
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged Don't Ask Don't Tell, Military, Senate on September 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Remember the State of the Union address, way back in January? Back before the ground zero mosque and the Pakistan floods and Shirley Sherrod and the Gulf Coast oil spill and that Icelandic volcano and the winter Olympics? What was that thing Barack Obama promised? “This year, I will work with Congress and our military [...]
West Point’s Hidden Gay Culture
Posted in Education, Law, Politics, tagged Don't Ask Don't Tell, Katherine Miller, West Point on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times has an excellent piece about the underground gay culture at West Point, where cadets are forbidden from coming out for fear of an immediate discharge under the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law. Although the centerpiece of the article is Katherine Miller, who resigned this month after deciding she could no longer [...]
