I have seen threads where some have said the new law doesn’t REPEAL DADT, but merely gives the Department of Defense the OPTION of repealing it...I can’t really find that in the text, unless we loosely interpret some of the language.
Seems clear to me it has been completely repealed.
The “Defense of Marriage Act” clause of the law is interesting, and I bet will be struck down as unconstitutional by the 9th circuit in about a week.
The problem with FR is that freepers have overly adopted Lazamataz's famous tag "Proudly posting without reading the article since 2002."
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(2) The President transmits to the congressional defense committees a written certification, signed by the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stating each of the following:
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(C) That the implementation of necessary policies ...is consistent with the standards of military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion, and recruiting and retention of the Armed Forces.
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(c) No Immediate Effect on Current Policy- Section 654 of title 10, United States Code, shall remain in effect until such time that all of the requirements and certifications required by subsection (b) are met. If these requirements and certifications are not met, section 654 of title 10, United States Code, shall remain in effect.
So, YES. DADT is STILL IN PLACE for at least 60 days AFTER and until the Joint Chiefs present all of the policies to implement Gays in the Military, including showing how it will NOT affect cohesion, readiness, recruiting etc.
That's going to take a long, long time.
So EVEN IF the Joint Chiefs had rolled over today and had all of these reports in, DADT would not be repealed until 60 days form now, well after the Republicans are running the Armed Services committee doing hearings on this very subject! But let's go ahead and frag the GOP anyway, knee-jerk freepers! READY, FIRE, AIM!