{"id":7757,"date":"2010-10-20T00:15:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T06:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7757"},"modified":"2013-10-04T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T00:07:25","slug":"us-military-to-accept-homosexual-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/us-military-to-accept-homosexual-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military to Accept Homosexual Applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an official release, the Department of Defense explicitly stated that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=61336\">openly homosexual men and women may now join the American military<\/a>.\u00a0 Notably, recruiters didn&#8217;t ask about sexual preference to begin with; however, the recent court ruling has apparently caused a spate of attempts to re-enlist by those previously discharged under DADT.\u00a0 These &#8220;self-admitting&#8221; homosexuals apparently include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/10\/19\/military-recruiters-told-accept-gay-applicants\/\">former Army LT David Choi<\/a>, among others.\u00a0 The military is reportedly permitting homosexual applicants, while simultaneously cautioning them they may later be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/10\/ap-military-pentagon-tells-recruiters-accept-gay-applicants-101910\/\">discharged if the ruling is overturned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Recruiters are reminded to set the applicants&#8217; expectations by informing them that a reversal in the court&#8217;s decision of the &#8216;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8217; law\/policy may occur,&#8221; Cynthia Smith said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday, the judge\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/10\/19\/judge-denies-government-request-delay-military-gay-ban-ruling\/\">denied the government&#8217;s request<\/a>\u00a0to stay her injunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an official release, the Department of Defense explicitly stated that openly homosexual men and women may now join the American military.\u00a0 Notably, recruiters didn&#8217;t ask about sexual preference to begin with; however, the recent court ruling has apparently caused a spate of attempts to re-enlist by those previously discharged under DADT.\u00a0 These &#8220;self-admitting&#8221; homosexuals apparently include former Army [&#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":[219,296,2],"class_list":["post-7757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-dan-choi","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757","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=7757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}