{"id":1415,"date":"2010-05-28T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T18:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2010-05-28T12:28:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T18:28:31","slug":"good-bye-dont-ask-dont-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/good-bye-dont-ask-dont-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Good-bye Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first step in repealing the 1993 Clinton presidency compromise on gays in the military, &#8220;<strong>Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell<\/strong>,&#8221; is at last on its way out.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives voted <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.nytimes.com\/congress\/votes\/111\/house\/2\/317?ref=politics\">234 to 194<\/a> to allow the repeal of the law, which bans out <strong>gays and lesbians\u00a0in the military<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Officially:\u00a0 <a href=\" http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/28\/us\/politics\/28tell.html\">House Vote 317 &#8211; Allows Repeal of Ban on Gays in Military<\/a>\u00a0(New York Times article today).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Grethe-Cammermeyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1416\" title=\"Grethe Cammermeyer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Grethe-Cammermeyer-150x149.jpg\" alt=\"Grethe Cammermeyer\" width=\"150\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Grethe-Cammermeyer-150x149.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Grethe-Cammermeyer-300x299.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Grethe-Cammermeyer.jpg 981w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Christi had the pleasure of sitting at Grethe Cammermeyer&#8217;s\u00a0table at President Bill Clinton&#8217;s <strong>1992 inauguration<\/strong>. For Christi, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cammermeyer.com\/\">Grethe Cammermeyer<\/a> who\u00a0brought to light the serious\u00a0issues of gays in the military and what that really means on a day-to-day basis.<\/p>\n<p>It was a\u00a0sad day when the &#8220;<strong>Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell<\/strong>&#8221; compromise was <strong>forced in to law<\/strong>. But since then, Americans&#8217; <strong>perceptions of gays and lesbians<\/strong> seem to have changed for the better. We&#8217;re <strong>not the same pariahs<\/strong> we were then.<\/p>\n<p>To that <strong>we salute the House members<\/strong> who voted to repeal this act.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first step in repealing the 1993 Clinton presidency compromise on gays in the military, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell,&#8221; is at last on its way out. Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives voted 234 to 194 to allow the repeal of the law, which bans out gays and lesbians\u00a0in the military. Officially:\u00a0 House Vote 317 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,16],"tags":[204,202,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}