{"id":89,"date":"2010-10-13T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T08:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/10\/dont-appeal-dadt-ruling.html"},"modified":"2010-10-13T08:57:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T08:57:41","slug":"dont-appeal-dadt-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/10\/dont-appeal-dadt-ruling.html","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Appeal DADT Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Once again,” stated<\/a>
\nthe Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins “an activist federal judge
\nis using the military to advance a
\nliberal social agenda, disregarding the views of all four military
\nservice chiefs and the constitutional role of Congress.” But not the
\nviews of the Commander in Chief, the Secretary of Defense, and the
\nChairman of the Joint Chiefs. <\/p>\n

Be it noted as well that the House of Representatives voted to repeal
\nDon’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell in May. And that the Senate would have done the
\nsame had not Senate Republicans, in deference to the likes of Perkins, filibustered<\/a> the bill. And that allowing gays to serve openly in the military is part of a liberal social agenda that Americans now support<\/a> by a two-to-one margin.<\/p>\n

Under the circumstances, the Justice Department would seem to have more than ample grounds for departing from its usual practice<\/a> and letting the judge’s injunction<\/a> stand unappealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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