Court orders gay military service ban lifted

Court orders gay military service ban lifted
# 06 July 2011 22:59 (UTC +04:00)
Baku-APA. A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ordered the Obama administration to stop enforcing the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the U.S. military, APA reports quoting Reuters.

The U.S. Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit lifted a stay of a lower court ruling that found the policy, known as "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell", unconstitutional.

President Barack Obama last year signed a landmark law to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military for the first time. The Pentagon has been in the process of writing rules for the new policy.

A California district court judge found that "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," policy, adopted in 1993, violated the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had put that decision on hold pending its review. Since the ban became a formal policy in 1993 an estimated 13,000 people have been expelled from the armed forces for violating the rules.






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