Topic: U.S. Armed Forces
US military chaplains can perform gay wedding ceremonies in states where it is legal, the Pentagon said Friday, 10 days after the end of a ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces.So far, gay marriage is legal in six US ...
US lawmakers have voted to allow gays to serve openly in the military for the first time, but troops must wait months before they can reveal their sexual orientation without facing dismissal.Amid concerns over unit cohesion at a time when the United ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It may be premature to end the U.S. military's ban on gays, Senator John McCain warned on Thursday, as Republicans geared up to block President Barack Obama's push to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy this year.The Pentagon ...
Westboro Baptist Church has announced plans to picket the funeral of Megan Touma on July 16 , 2008 , at Fort Bragg , North Carolina . Touma protest to draw response (July 9, 2008) Touma was found dead on June 21 at ...
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The Netherllands, Italy, New Zealand, Romania, and Switzerland also allow it. We are in league with Cuba, China, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. However, the tide seems to be changing according to U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy who said, "I take it as ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Obama administration sought on Thursday to limit the reach of a recent court decision striking down the U.S. military rule that bans openly gay people from serving in the Armed Forces.The administration's stance, filed in U.S. District ...
US allies with openly gay soldiers, including some fighting alongside American troops, are providing growing evidence that allowing such service would have little to no effect on US military cohesion, a new study has shown.Since 1993 the United States has implemented a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The secretary of the U.S. Army publicly corrected himself on Thursday about his assertion that there was a moratorium on discharging gays from the military, saying he had been mistaken.John McHugh, the Army's top civilian, added he was unable ...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced new measures Thursday to make it harder to discharge gays in the US military, saying the move offered "a greater measure of common sense and common decency."Gates said the changes seek to enforce "in a fairer and ...