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The don't-ask don't-tell policy that fires hundreds of soldiers including needed translators for counter-terrorism = ok?
GOP senators zero in on Kagan's stance on gays in the military 2010
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But he said he wants to proceed with his preferred approach: to allow the Defense Department to complete, by Dec. 1, a review of how to integrate gay men and lesbians in the armed forces, followed by an act of Congress that would overturn the don't-ask, don't-tell law.
Judge halts 'Don't ask don't tell' policy Jerry Markon 2010
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The deans said the military's don't-ask, don't-tell rule on gays violated their schools 'antidiscrimination policy.
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Opponents of her nomination are certain to raise questions about her decision, as Harvard law dean, to sign a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that law schools did not have to allow the U.S. military to recruit on campus because the don't-ask, don't-tell policy barred gays from serving openly.
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Seated behind a grand piano that belched flames from its soundboard, Gaga frequently digressed to lash out at the U.S. military's don't-ask, don't-tell policy and discrimination against the gay community writ large.
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Opponents of her nomination are certain to raise questions about her decision, as Harvard law dean, to sign a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that law schools did not have to allow the U.S. military to recruit on campus because the don't-ask, don't-tell policy barred gays from serving openly.
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From the Associated Press: Taia has defied Moroccan society's don't-ask, don't-tell attitude toward homosexuality — and prison sentences that are still on the books in the North African kingdom — to write five autobiographical novels about growing up poor and gay in the northern coastal city of Sale.
Inspiring Moroccan gay writer Abdellah Taia gay person of color 2009
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From the Associated Press: Taia has defied Moroccan society's don't-ask, don't-tell attitude toward homosexuality — and prison sentences that are still on the books in the North African kingdom — to write five autobiographical novels about growing up poor and gay in the northern coastal city of Sale.
Archive 2009-05-01 gay person of color 2009
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We have to remember that "don't-ask, don't-tell" doesn't hurt the gay soldiers as much as it hurts the straight soldiers.
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Don't-ask/don't-tell works just fine with fur from China marked Asian Wolf, Corsac fox and rabbit which people knows is dog and cat but buy anyway because it's priced right.
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