{"id":7783,"date":"2010-10-25T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2013-10-04T21:19:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T00:19:56","slug":"repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell-may-face-military-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell-may-face-military-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell May Face Military Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Associated Press article on the recent back-and-forth over the policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” contained little new on the subject, save a heretofore untold observation by the Obama administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the administration’s path is still uncertain said the administration has never fully acknowledged that while a majority of Americans may want the ban lifted, a majority of the uniformed military might not<\/em>. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This supposition that members of the military may oppose open homosexual service — despite how the civilian society may feel — may have been the fear of homosexual advocacy groups when they opposed the Department of Defense surveys earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Unlike most Americans who support allowing openly gay troops, the rank-and-file are suspected by their leaders to be considerably less permissive.<\/p>\n

The men and women serving in the armed forces today represent less than 1 percent of the country’s total population, and come heavily from rural, conservative areas in the South and the mountain West.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As noted here before, the US military governs and restricts conduct that might otherwise be permissible outside the military.\u00a0 With indications that conduct would have an impact on a majority of the military, it may not be so easy to simply reverse it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Associated Press article on the recent back-and-forth over the policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” contained little new on the subject, save a heretofore untold observation by the Obama administration: Officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the administration’s path is still uncertain said the administration has never fully acknowledged that while a majority of Americans may […]<\/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":[219,442,2,43],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","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=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}