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If the government does not appeal, the injunction cannot be reversed and would remain in effect. If it does appeal, that would put the administration in the position of continuing to defend a law it opposes.

It was not a good day for those who wanted a straight vote of the Defense Appropriations bill. Sen. Reid (D – Nev.) would not permit that.

Senator Inhofe speaks on the Senate floor about the language in the NDAA that would repeal the military’s current Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. Congress may take up the legislation as early as next week, and the current language to repeal the policy would be a case of Congress preempting the military’s own year-long study on the impacts of recruitment, readiness, and cohesion.

The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the U.S. military since 1993 violates constitutionally protected due process and free speech rights, a federal judge in California ruled.

I wait for General George Casey, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, to send an e-mail to me and my fellow soldiers in regards to homosexual Bradley Manning’s reported treason in the WikiLeaks scandal.

The bottom line: 48 percent of respondents favor keeping the ban; 45 percent want it repealed. A group opposed to ending the ban on openly gay troops in the military has released a national survey that challenges earlier independent polls asserting that a wide percentage of Americans favor repealing the ban.

Not surprisingly voters expect Congress to get its priorities right. They expect Congress to focus on important issues like creating jobs (49%) and reducing government spending (23%). Only 1% of likely voters believe repealing the military’s homosexual ban should be a top priority for Congress.

A nationwide survey of 1,000 likely voters found that 59 percent of Democrats think that members of Congress should consider the opinions of homosexual advocacy groups over the opinions of top military commanders when considering a repeal of the law prohibiting homosexuality in the military. – CNSNews.com

Kagan remained silent when a Saudi donor put up $20 million dollars to establish a Center for Islamic Studies that cleared the way for the promotion of Sharia Law – a Muslim theology that many believe embraces repression and sexism.

Don’t sacrifice unit cohesion for a social experiment. ‘American soldiers in battle don’t fight for what some president says on TV, they don’t fight for mom, apple pie or the American flag, they fight for one another.’ —Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore, U.S. Army, We Were Soldiers Once, and Young