Comments on: Conferees omit anti-gay provisions from defense bill http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/12/13/conferees-omit-anti-gay-provisions-from-defense-bill/ the gay community's news source Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Skeeter Sanders http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/12/13/conferees-omit-anti-gay-provisions-from-defense-bill/#comment-40693 Skeeter Sanders Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:59:36 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=32787#comment-40693 Isn’t it time for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network to mount a legal challenge to Article 125, now that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has been repealed?I believe strongly that Article 125 should be challenged under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, which declared the 13 remaining state laws that criminalized consensual sodomy unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Constitution is the supreme law of this country, to which all servicemembers are bound by oath to protect and defend. It’s time that the supreme law of this country be enforced and that Article 125 be struck down.

]]> By: Anti-Gay Amendments Dropped from Defense Bill; Sodomy Ban Stays « MGN: Miami Gay News http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/12/13/conferees-omit-anti-gay-provisions-from-defense-bill/#comment-40467 Anti-Gay Amendments Dropped from Defense Bill; Sodomy Ban Stays « MGN: Miami Gay News Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:31:26 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=32787#comment-40467 [...] The Washington Blade adds: [...]

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]]> By: Conference Defense bill torpedoes anti-gay language | Hotspyer – Breaking News from around the web http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/12/13/conferees-omit-anti-gay-provisions-from-defense-bill/#comment-40459 Conference Defense bill torpedoes anti-gay language | Hotspyer – Breaking News from around the web Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:57:14 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=32787#comment-40459 [...] news from the Washington Blade: Absent from the final bill is language found in the House version that prohibits both military [...]

]]> By: U.S. Defense Bill Keeps America Safe From Committed Couples, Pleasing Sex / Queerty http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/12/13/conferees-omit-anti-gay-provisions-from-defense-bill/#comment-40458 U.S. Defense Bill Keeps America Safe From Committed Couples, Pleasing Sex / Queerty Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:39:03 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=32787#comment-40458 [...] that military bases wouldn’t get used for same-sex weddings either. However, they’ve dropped those amendments. Sadly, they didn’t repeal military Article 125, the code forbidding sodomy‚ ensuring that [...]

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