{"id":7644,"date":"2010-10-14T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T06:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2010-10-13T19:23:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T01:23:04","slug":"secdef-opposes-court-injunction-of-dadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/secdef-opposes-court-injunction-of-dadt\/","title":{"rendered":"SecDef Opposes Court Injunction of DADT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=61259\">official DoD news release<\/a>, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates reiterated his position that the status of the policy known as &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; is one for Congress to decide.\u00a0 Gates said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I feel very strongly that this is an action that needs to be taken by the Congress, and that it is an action that requires careful preparation and a lot of training. We have a lot of revision of regulations that has to be done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the same time, Gates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2010\/10\/ap-analysis-gay-ban-101310\/\">repeated his former statements<\/a>\u00a0that the DoD review <!--more-->in progress was not intended to determine <em>whether\u00a0<\/em>to repeal DADT; it was only intended to figure out how to <em>implement<\/em> such a repeal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Senator Al Franken asked the Obama administration to <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/72363\/franken-urges-obama-administration-not-to-appeal-dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal\">not appeal the ruling<\/a>, which would allow the ruling and its injunction to stand.\u00a0 For its part, it appears the Justice Department is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/10\/13\/military.gays.appeal\/\">preparing to file its appeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Chaplain (Col) Keith Travis, previously among <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/22\/number-of-chaplains-opposing-dadt-repeal-increases\/\">many that urged the Obama administration not to repeal DADT<\/a> without protections for religious freedom, repeated those concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an\u00a0official DoD news release, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates reiterated his position that the status of the policy known as &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; is one for Congress to decide.\u00a0 Gates said: I feel very strongly that this is an action that needs to be taken by the Congress, and that it is an action that requires careful [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1077,5284,78,219,1078,2,334],"class_list":["post-7644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-al-franken","tag-chaplain","tag-congress","tag-dadt","tag-keith-travis","tag-military","tag-robert-gates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644","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=7644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}