{"id":4789,"date":"2011-07-22T23:03:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T03:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2011-07-22T23:04:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T03:04:25","slug":"breaking-news-pentagon-set-to-certify-u-s-military-prepared-accept-openly-gay-and-lesbians-update-11-pm-72211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/07\/breaking-news-pentagon-set-to-certify-u-s-military-prepared-accept-openly-gay-and-lesbians-update-11-pm-72211.html","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS!!!   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Mike Mullen. \u00a0Under a bill passed last year that set up a process for repealing the controversial &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy, all three men needed to sign the certification. \u00a0A 60-day waiting period will now begin before the repeal is fully implemented.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=4780\">See other post today at:\u00a0http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=4780 \u00a0 entitled &#8220;In US Senate: \u00a0DOMA Backers, Foes Face Off at Hearing&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN REPORTS: \u00a0\u00a0The Pentagon\u00a0is set to certify that the U.S. military is prepared to accept openly gay and lesbian service members, and that doing so will not harm military readiness, a U.S. official says. \u00a0According to the official, who spoke on condition of not being identified, an announcement of that certification &#8212; which is required&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1474,1361,1344,485,256,344,1367,1680,1498,1354,1620,1430,108,429,1384,254,806],"tags":[1727,1697],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse-and-abusers","category-anti-christian-bias","category-attacks-from-the-left-on-the-righteous","category-big-lobby","category-brainwashing","category-bullying","category-deceptions-and-lies","category-injustice","category-insanity","category-liberals","category-moral-decline","category-news-2","category-religion","category-society","category-traditional-marraige","category-u-s-military-2","category-warning","tag-certification-for-military-to-accept-open-homosexual-acts-required-to-repeal-doma-dont-ask-dont-tell-policy","tag-obama-supports-pro-homosexual-respect-for-marriage-act"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS!!!  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