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12 9th, 2010| 
AP – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday he would demand a vote on letting gays serve openly in the military, a test of whether Republicans have dropped their objections to overturning “don’t ask, don’t tell” after a Pentagon study found it could be done without hurting military effectiveness. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Top US commanders on Friday sharply disagreed over lifting a ban on openly gay troops serving in the military, drawing different conclusions from a new Pentagon study. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Top US commanders on Friday sharply disagreed over lifting a ban on openly gay troops serving in the military, drawing different conclusions from a new Pentagon study. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Top US commanders on Friday sharply disagreed over lifting a ban on openly gay individuals serving in the military at a Senate hearing following a new Pentagon study. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – Directly challenging the Pentagon’s top leadership, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain on Thursday snubbed a military study on gays as flawed and said letting gays serve openly would be dangerous in a time of war. McCain’s opposition foreshadows the upcoming Senate debate on a bill that would overturn the 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, which bans gays from serving openly in the service. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – The Pentagon study that argues that gay troops could serve openly without hurting the military’s ability to fight is expected to re-ignite debate this month on Capitol Hill over repealing the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – When a majority of troops told the Pentagon this summer they didn’t care if gays were allowed to serve openly in the military, it was in sharp contrast to the time when America’s fighting forces voiced bitter opposition to accepting racial minorities and women in the services. Read the rest of this entry »