Obama Avoids Test on Gays in Military

May 18th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal

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Obama Avoids Test on Gays in Military - Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has decided to accept an appeals-court ruling that could undermine the military's ban on service members found to be gay.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco last year ruled that the government must justify the expulsion of a decorated officer solely because she is a lesbian. The court rejected government arguments that the law banning gays in the military should have a blanket application, and that officials shouldn't be required to argue the merits in her individual case.

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