{"id":272886,"date":"2010-02-03T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010974731_dontaskdonttell.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-03T18:58:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:58:17","slug":"dont-ask-dont-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272886","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Republicans acting against security interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n<p>When Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and Defense Secretary Robert Gates testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee calling on Congress to repeal \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell,\u201d which has resulted in the discharges of otherwise qualified [service] members \u2014 13,000 during the last 17 years \u2014 Republicans sided against national security by speaking out against such a repeal. [\u201cTop brass: \u2018don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 must go,\u201d page one, Feb. 3.]<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said most service members support the law, when most actually support its repeal. An angry Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., reversed his position from more than two years ago. During the fall of 2006, McCain said that if military leaders ever supported repealing \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell,\u201d he would listen to them and support it\u2019s repeal as well. But yesterday he made it clear he opposes such a repeal.<\/p>\n<p>McCain is facing a strong primary challenge from right-winger J.D. Heyworth. I guess McCain has decided to put re-election, not country, first.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Robert M. Keenan, Mukilteo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>God is dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Times\u2019 editorial \u201cThe right thing, overdue,\u201d [Opinion, Feb. 3], stated some very important beliefs \u2014 if you read between the lines.<\/p>\n<p>What you said is that God and his word, the Bible, no longer have a place in the lives of the people in the United States. It would seem to me that if you were going to take the stand that you took with integrity, you would at least tell your readers explicitly that, in your own opinion, you believe that God no longer has a place in the USA.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Edwin Holden, Renton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans acting against security interests Editor, The Times: When Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and Defense Secretary Robert Gates testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee calling on Congress to repeal \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell,\u201d which has resulted in the discharges of otherwise qualified [service] members \u2014 13,000 during the last 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}