(The Loop 21) — When Takia Mitchell heard that Barack Obama had signed the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, she called her brother. “I was just so happy, I couldn’t believe it,” she said. Mitchell is one of the 14,000 servicemembers who have been discharged because of their sexuality over the 17 years Don’t Ask […]
Over the weekend, Congress passed a historic resolution to finally repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, an A$$-backwards provision, which prohibited gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. The infamous policy was first introduced as a compromise measure in 1993 by former president Bill Clinton, who campaigned to allow gays in the military against […]
(Washington Post) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to stop enforcement of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy while a lower court hears a challenge to the Pentagon’s ban on gays and lesbians serving openly. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is preparing to hear legal arguments in a case […]