[OutVoice] The Pentagon plan to stop "Asking" + more global LGBT news

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Mon Feb 8 16:49:23 CST 2010


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The Pentagon promotes a plan to stop "Asking";
Albania lawmakers approve an inclusive bias ban, Latin American and
Caribbean activists confer in Brazil, but a top general there says
troops won't obey their gay commanders, a Malawi man is busted for
posting equality slogans, Obama and Clinton preach against
Uganda's "kill the gays" bill, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Albania's parliament approves comprehensive sexual orientation-inclusive anti-discrimination legislation... hundreds gather in Curitiba, Brazil for the 5th Latin America and Caribbean Regional ILGA Conference, but a top Brazilian general says gays should not serve in command positions because subordinates won't obey their orders... a young man in Malawi faces up to 3 months in jail for distributing gay rights posters in Blantyre... U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA and SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON condemn Uganda's proposed "kill the gays" legislation at Washington, DC's annual National Prayer Breakfast [with excerpts from their remarks], while pastor Martin Ssempa, an outspoken opponent of LGBT rights, screens gay porn in Kampala to rally support for the bill... and more LGBT news from around the world(written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by MICHAEL LEBEAU and SANTINA GIORDANO).

- It's been 17 years since "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell," the U.S. ban on service by open gays and lesbians, was enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. As a result, more than 13,500 "outed" service members have been discharged -- including "mission critical" personnel such as Arabic language specialists. President Barack Obama has consistently criticized the policy, and he renewed his vow to end it in his State of the Union address last week.  Despite the Administration's previous pledges, new testimony from Pentagon officials to the SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE on February 2nd was the most tangible sign of action (includes testimony by DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT GATES and JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF CHAIRMAN ADMIRAL MICHAEL MULLEN, comments by REPUBLICAN SENATORS JOHN McCAIN and SAXBY CHAMBLISS, and an exchange between SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN and COMMITTEE CHAIR SENATOR CARL LEVIN about how many votes would be required for repeal; the Family Research Council's PETER SPRIGG opposes repeal and calls for homosexuality to again be criminalized during a joust with the host of MSNBC's "Hardball with CHRIS MATTHEWS"; and highly-decorated 19-year Air Force pilot/Iraq War veteran LT. COLONEL VICTOR FEHRENBACH, whose discharge under the policy is pending, discusses the hearing with MSNBC's RACHEL MADDOW) [www.msnbc.com].

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