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Question by latj: Obama "promised" in campaign speeches to do away with the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy", but then he agrees? with the Supreme Court ruling to leave the policy as it stands. Does anyone have a problem with this? I am talking about in regards to the "military". Best answer for Obama "promised" in campaign speeches to do away with the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy", but then he agrees?:
Answer by É¥dÉɹƃd
Just because the Supreme Court won't take the case, doesn't mean a circuit court won't. The Supreme Court is the only court in the united states that choose to hear a case. With the Supreme Court bent so far right, you'd probably be better in making a move in one of the lower federal courts if you were to try at all. Obama can make any campaign promise he wants. He's going to need legislative approval to remove "Don't ask, don't tell", however.
Answer by geramd5050
his plan as stated was for it to go through the legislature around 2010, so we'll see
Answer by Dewzon E
Really the United States has more to worry about than changing DADT. Don't get me wrong, I'm gay and would join the military if I could serve openly but I just do not think it is an important issue right now. I would like to see more civil rights such as marriage or at least civil unions in all fifty states before the right to join the military openly. Personally, I think Obama is doing a hell of a lot better job than suck my bushwack!
Answer by 3.14159265
I have a huge problem with it and a strongly worded letter is on it's way to him. I voted for him because I thought he would be more a president of principle (like his hero Lincoln) than Hillary would. I'm not seeing princ iple. I'm seeing a politician who's scared that he'll piss off the Republicans. Well, guess what? Ain't nothing gonna make them happy until marriage is glorified slavery for women, gays are beaten in the streets, science is mocked, and a giant cross replaces the Statue of Liberty. And that is not an America I plan on living in.
Answer by Cody J
It doesn't bother me at all lol. If we ever have a draft, I have an easy out lol!
Answer by Shug
Personally I applauded Obama's plan to get rid of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the American military, but he can not go against the Supreme Court. His job is to uphold the rulings of the Supreme Court and the Constitution of America. Still, I applaud the fact that he recognizes that the time for gays and lesbians to openly serve our country with all of the honor and dignity implied has come. He is oe of the most socially progressive presidents yet! So, while I understand your disappointment, pleas e celebrate the fact that he attempted a change in favor of gays and lesbians.
Answer by COBALT ▬▬â‰â–¬â–¬
Obama has done absolutely nothing for LGBT people in regards employment discrimination, housing discrimination, marriage discrimination, and military service discrimination. Obama is nothing more than another politician that only will only talk the talk to get elected and not walk the walk... and his record has shown that he never really cared about LGBT people to begin with, except for their votes.
Answer by JIMK
The list of his broken promises is long . Plus he keeps giving key jobs to republican bush loyalists . Is this what we signed up for ?
Answer by RadGal
It's all politics. Obama wants to overturn the policiy, but in a way that won't waste political captital. He remembers how the Clinton administration got totally bogged down over the issue in 1993. By taking the slow, deliberate course he spreads the political cost more evenly between himself, the congress and both parties. He's being poltically shrewd. Have patience.
Answer by sir galahad
that's why they call it "politics",the more things change,them more they stay the same
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Portland attorney Kelly Clark is shown Tuesday with some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization.
By Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News
More than 1,200 formerly  secret Boy Scouts’ files detailing accusations of child sex abuse within the organization from 1965 to 1985 were published online Thursday by lawyers, who said they offered lessons in the battle against pedophiles.
The  documents, known as the “ineligible volunteer†files within the organization, were ordered released by the Oregon Supreme Court. Media organizations had sued for the release of the files, part of a 2010 case in which a Portland, Ore., jury decided that the Scouts were negligent in allowing a former assistant Scoutmaster to associate with the organization's youth after he admitted molesting 17 boys, said Kelly Clark, one of the victims' attorneys.
“While we can read through the files, for us it represents the pain and the anguish of thousands of untold scouts,†said attorney Paul Mones, who litigated the 2010 case on  behalf of victims in Oregon with lawyer Kelly Clark. “While there are 1,247 files, we know that each Scout leader leader (accused of molestation) molested on the average more than one scout.â€
The attorneys called for Congress to audit the Boy Scouts, which is a congressionally chartered organization, to ensure that the group was following its current child abuse policy.
The files represent reports of Scouts allegedly abused by more than 1,200 different scoutmasters and other adult volunteers across the country. The files can be accessed on www.kellyclarkattorney.com.
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A report released by the Boy Scouts of America in September said that 829 of the files from Jan. 1, 1965, to June 30, 1984, involved suspicions or confirmations of inappropriate sexual behavior with 1,622 youth. The report was done for the organization by Dr. Janet Warren, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia.
At the time, the Boy Scouts said in a letter that they would review their files created from 1965 to the present “and ensure that all good-faith suspicion of abuse has been reported to law enforcement.†They also said that while there “have been instances where people misused their positions in Scouting to abuse children, and in certain cases, our response to these incidents and our efforts to protect youth were plainly insufficient, inappropriate, or wrong.â€
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On Thursday morning, the organization reiterated that in a statement and also noted: “Where those involved in Scouting failed to protect, or worse, inflicted harm on children, we extend our deepest and sincere apologies to victims and their families.â€
“While it is difficult to understand or explain individuals’ actions from many decades ago, today Scouting is a leader among youth-serving organizations in preventing child abuse,†the statement added.
In an interview with NBCDFW.com, volunteer CEO Wayne Perry said: "I would ask parents to look at the programs we have and then judge us versus, maybe not the past, but judge where we are today and certainly judge us against any other youth service organization in the world and they will see that your kids are very, very safe."
But the attorneys said the files could still inform future prevention of child sex abuse since the documents revealed how pedophiles operated and infiltrated youth groups -- knowledge “no other youth organization had at that time or since,†Mones said.
“The importance is what Scouts could have done with this information,†he said. “At the trial they said they had never looked at the files to examine them for any purpose to protect Scouts. Their one goal of taking Scout leaders out who had molested Scouts, yes … they did take Scouts out. However, the information that they gleaned, how these people used Scouting activities to bring Scouts into their midst, how these guys were not just bad leaders … these people were leading Scouts.â€
“So our goal really is to look to the future through the past,†he added.
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For John Mark Buckland, 42, who was abused by a Scout leader at Travis Air Force Base in Vacaville, Calif., the release represented an empowering moment.
“It unveils all the secrecy, or at least a good portion of it, and the secrecy is the biggest demon there is when it comes to things like this, because it’s by being hidden that it basically just eats people away like a cancer,†Buckland, of Huntington, W. Va., told NBC News.Â
“We’ve been powerless up to now. We’ve been at the whims of a multibillion-dollar organization that … has all the money to keep us under a desk in a box. And for now, they can’t do it anymore.â€
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