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10 September 2010 Last updated at 03:20 GMT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11256359
US judge rules military ban on gays 'unconstitutional'
President Obama has promised to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell'
A federal judge in California has ruled that a ban on homosexuals
serving openly in the US military is unconstitutional.
The judge said the law violated fundamental First Amendment rights.
The law allows gay and lesbian soldiers to serve if their
homosexuality is not known but suspends them if it is. It is referred
to as "don't ask, don't tell".
The latest case was regarded as a major test for the law, which
President Barack Obama says he would repeal.
On Thursday, US District Judge Virginia Phillips granted a request for
an injunction halting the policy.
She said the law did not help military readiness, but had a "direct
and deleterious effect" on the armed services.
The Obama administration has promised to introduce legislation repealing it.
It has also announced that the repeal would not be implemented until
after the Pentagon completed a review of its impact on the armed
forces.
In the past, the issue of gays in the military has divided opinion in the US.
But most Americans now accept openly gay servicemembers, according a
recent Gallup poll.
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
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