"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" just got told.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/12/BAAC1FRM83.DTL

Excerpts:

U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips of Riverside rejected the Obama administration's request to delay an injunction blocking enforcement of the 1993 law while the issue is before Congress, or to limit its scope to the gay-rights group that sued to overturn the law.

A trial in her court established that "the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Act irreparably injures service members by infringing their fundamental rights," Phillips said. She said her Sept. 9 ruling applied to the entire policy and not just to its effect on the 19,000-member Log Cabin Republicans, the plaintiff group.

Phillips ruled that the law intruded on service members' privacy, autonomy and freedom of expression, and that the government had failed to substantiate its claim that excluding openly gay troops promotes military effectiveness or unit cohesion.

She said expert testimony and studies from other nations with different policies found no evidence that allowing gays to serve reduced military effectiveness.

Phillips also said the Pentagon had undermined the government's position by delaying the discharge proceedings of acknowledged gays and lesbians while they were in combat zones, then seeking to remove them when they returned.

Read the rest at the link.

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