Notes: Don’t ask, don’t tell (DADT) is the common term for the policy allowing openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals to serve in the United States military, in contravention to federal law Pub.L. 103-160 (10 U.S.C. § 654). Unless one of the exceptions from 10 U.S.C. § 654(b) applies, the policy prohibits anyone who “demonstrate(s) a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts” from serving in the armed forces of the United States, because “it would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.”

The act prohibits any homosexual or bisexual person from disclosing his or her sexual orientation or from speaking about any homosexual relationships, including marriages or other familial attributes, while serving in the United States armed forces. The “don’t ask” part of the policy indicates that superiors should not initiate investigation of a service member’s orientation in the absence of disallowed behaviors, though credible and articulable evidence of homosexual behavior may cause an investigation.

Violations of this aspect through persecutions and harassment of suspected servicemen and women resulted in the policy’s current formulation as don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue, don’t harass. [ READ MORE ]

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Writes: Joe Solmonese

Obama’s Inaugural Mistake

It is difficult to comprehend how our president-elect, who has been so spot on in nearly every political move and gesture, could fail to grasp the symbolism of inviting an anti-gay theologian to deliver his inaugural invocation. And the Obama campaign’s response to the anger about this decision? Hey, we’re also bringing a gay marching band. You know how the gays love a parade.

Yes, the Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of the humongous, evangelical Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., has a sound message on poverty. And certainly, in the world of politics, there is a view that Barack Obama owes Warren for bringing him before fellow evangelicals, despite fierce opposition during the heat of the presidential campaign.

But here’s the other thing about Warren, the author of the bestselling book “The Purpose Driven Life“: He was a general in the campaign to pass California’s Proposition 8, which dissolved the legal marriage rights of loving, committed same-sex couples. …. [READ MORE]

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Special Read(s):

1. How the hell did Rick Warren get inauguration tickets? — Barack Obama knows liberals are upset he picked the conservative evangelical preacher to pray at the inauguration. And he doesn’t care.

2. God doesn’t exist. He never did . . . he never will. Wake up . . . grow up . . . and get over it!
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Who is Rick Warren

“Just because I like pizza it doesn’t mean I should marry it.” — Rick Warren. — In an interview with Ann Curry on NBC’s Dateline [See Video below], Evangelist Preacher, Rick Warren, who is set to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration, equated gays getting married to eating pizza everyday.

Under fire, Warren defends inauguration invite — Evangelical pastor says he loves ‘gays and straights,’ met Melissa Ethridge

Obama responds to Warren Backlash
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References:

1. Rick Warren Likens Gays To Pizza — “Just because I like pizza it doesn’t mean I should marry it”
2. Obama’s Choice Of Warren Is Very Disappointing — Rep. Barney Frank
3. Rick Warren and Gays — John Leo
4. To Whose God Will Rick Warren Pray? — The selection of Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Rick Warren to deliver the Inaugural Invocation raises all sorts of provocative questions. Has Barack Obama betrayed the left by choosing someone so closely identified with the anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage positions of the Christian Right? Does this mean Warren has succeeded Billy Graham as America’s pastor? Will the 2009 Inaugural Invocation be the first in American history delivered by a man with a goatee?
5. God doesn’t exist. He never did . . . he never will. Wake up . . . grow up . . . and get over it!

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