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No DUplicitous DUpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:28 PM Original message |
Why Does "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Still Exist? |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. One more time.....Military segregation was not a law, it was a policy. |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. One more time...the law has been found unconstitutional...it no longer exists... |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Unless another court decides it is constitutional and sets it back up. |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 02:51 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Unless they pass another law. |
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Cleobulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. That makes no sense, Congress doesn't pass laws that are impossible to repeal... |
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sharp_stick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. I'm sure the supreme court would back you up on that |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. A law that's been ruled unconstitutional. |
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VMI Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. It is dead right now. The Obama admin is trying to resurrect it. |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. The Obama adm is trying to kill it forever....by repealing the law. |
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No DUplicitous DUpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
6. It's no wonder I'm confused. nt |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. It's confusing when people tell you it is just kaput and that's the end of it. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
7. Short answer: cuz its gawd's werd! |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:41 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. More like it's because the nuts took gawds words and twisted |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Well if by "God's word" they mean the Christian Bible... |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
11. Republicans (and two Dems) prevented an up-or-down vote |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-18-10 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
16. Why do we have DADT in the first place? |
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No DUplicitous DUpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-19-10 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
17. Even if one grants President Obama can't overrule a Congressional law by issuing an Executive Order, |
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