{"id":5627,"date":"2010-06-01T00:35:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T05:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2013-09-24T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T00:24:31","slug":"land-calls-for-filibuster-over-dadt-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/land-calls-for-filibuster-over-dadt-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Calls for Filibuster over DADT Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Land<\/a>, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has called for a filibuster of the Defense Authorization Act<\/a>, which currently has an amendment repealing the federal law banning homosexuals from serving in the US military:<\/p>\n

“I’ve never known of a better excuse for a filibuster than to stop the Congress of the United States from essentially destroying the greatest military force our nation has ever known.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Each of the four military service chiefs<\/a> has expressed opposition<\/a> to what is described as a “compromise” over DADT repeal;\u00a0Chairman\u00a0Admiral Mike Mullen’s position is somewhat less clear, as he appeared to initially\u00a0express support but has now expressed reservations<\/a>.\u00a0 In apparently dismissing the ongoing review, its timing ‘sends a signal’ to American servicemembers that their views don’t matter:<\/p>\n

[This] will be seen by the men and women of the Army as a reversal of our commitment to hear their views before moving forward…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[This] may cause confusion on the status of the law in the fleet and disrupt the review process itself by leading sailors to question whether their input matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For his part, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates broadcast a special message<\/a> to servicemembers telling them nothing will change in the short term, and that current laws will continue to be enforced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has called for a filibuster of the Defense Authorization Act, which currently has an amendment repealing the federal law banning homosexuals from serving in the US military: “I’ve never known of a better excuse for a filibuster than to stop the Congress of the United States from essentially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[219,1281,280,2,431,334],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-joint-chiefs-of-staff","tag-mike-mullen","tag-military","tag-richard-land","tag-robert-gates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}