While it seems the Democratic Party’s leadership is doing its best to try and treat everyone equally under the law, some Republicans in the House Armed Services Committee in the US House of Representatives are intent on doing there utmost to legalize discrimination and to marginalize the LGBT servicemen and women.
The Armed Services Committee approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would ban military bases from hosting marriages or “marriage-like ceremonies” between same-sex couples. The Republican panel members also approved language to protect military personnel from reprisals for expressing “their moral principles and religious beliefs… concerning the appropriate and inappropriate expression of human sexuality.” You can read the full story as reported on the blog, TheHill.com.
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