Sneak attack: Obama quietly weakens anti-gay military policy … by doing nothing?
”This decision makes it significantly easier to strike down at least the application of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ in many if not most cases…. We’re happy that this is not going forward to the Supreme Court at this point.”
Jon Davidson, of Lambda Legal, regarding the case of Major Margaret Witt, a Air Force flight nurse who was discharged for having a lesbian relationship. The Justice Department has apparently announced that it will not seek to overturn a San Francisco appeals court ruling that call into question the Constitutionality of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and how it relates to the the landmark win for gay sex in the Supreme Court case of Lawrence vs. Texas. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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