From The Christian Science Monitor:
A federal appeals court in California granted a temporary stay on Wednesday, reversing aworldwide injunction against enforcement of the US military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
The action means the Pentagon’s ban on service members who are openly homosexual is, once again, in full force.
The policy was thrown into doubt last week when a federal judge in Riverside, Calif., declared the 17-year measure unconstitutional. As the government scrambled to halt the injunction, military recruiters for the first time began to consider openly gay recruits. Those efforts are now on hold.
In granting the stay, the three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing government lawyers more time to prepare their argument. The government is seeking a longer-term stay that would hold the injunction in abeyance for the duration of the appeal.
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Look. There are already gays and lesbians serving in the military. Gays and lesbians have shed blood for the United States of America.
Really.
Let them serve.
Let them serve as they are.