A 3-member Navy panel on Friday voted against discharging Petty Officer 2nd Class Derek Morado, a gay sailor who faced ouster from the military for violating “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.”
Morado told The Fresno Bee that his lawyer argued that Morado should stay because the policy that bans gay and bisexual troops from serving openly was dead.
Congress approved and President Barack Obama signed into law a bill last year that ends the ban. But implementation will not begin until 60 days after the president and Pentagon leaders agree the military is ready for the change. At a House hearing on Friday, military leaders said they expect to implement repeal by summer's end.
Morado was outed as gay in 2009 after he posted a photo of himself kissing another man on the Internet.
http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=7993&MediaType=1&Category=26Posting as a follow-up to a post last week about Morado.
DADT is not only merely dead, it's really most sincerely dead.
Sid