Gates Makes It Harder to Oust Gay Troops

Dan82 · May 26, 2010

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/25/politics/main6332007.shtml

Defense Secretary Robert Gates Thursday approved new rules that will make it harder to discharge gays from the military, calling the changes a matter of "common sense and common decency."

Gates announced new guidelines for how the Pentagon carries out the 1993 law banning gays from serving openly in the military — rules which essentially put higher-ranking officers in charge of discharge proceedings and impose tougher requirements for evidence used against gays.

The new guidelines go into effect immediately. They are considered a stopgap measure until Congress decides whether to go along with President Barak Obama's call for a repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" law.

"I believe these changes represent an important improvement in the way the current law" is applied, Gates told a Pentagon news conference. He said the changes will provide "a greater measure of common sense and common decency" on a difficult issue.

The changes raise the level of officer authorized to initiate a fact-finding inquiry into a case, the level of officer who can conduct an inquiry and of the one that can authorize a dismissal...
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AlexPatrickMorrissey · May 26, 2010

This is a step in the right direction! I still want that stupid fucking law to be dead once and for all, but I have no idea how long it will take. For now, this is good. I can only hope that DADT will be gone within the next six months.

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