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DADT repeal efforts closer to fruition on multiple fronts

By Edward SanFilippo

Aaron D. Tax [Legal Director, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network]: "Congress and President Clinton created "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) in 1993 as a so-called compromise that has "allowed" lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans to serve our country, so long as they lie about who they are. On the legislative, administrative, and litigation fronts, it is now, to say the least, a key time in the 17-year history of DADT. On the litigation front, six years after Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) challenged the constitutionality of DADT in Cook v. Gates [PDF] we've witnessed unprecedented victories in both Witt v. United States Dep't of the Air Force [PDF] and Log Cabin

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on December 23, 2010 (boomark / email).