Gay marriage Oregon: Sen. Ron Wyn tells crowd ''s time' (vio)

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• GAY MARRIAGE OREGON: SEN. RON WYN TELLS CROWD ''S TIME' (VIO)
• SENATE REPEALS BAN AGAST OPENLY GAY MILARY PERSONNEL

GAY MARRIAGE OREGON: SEN. RON WYN TELLS CROWD ''S TIME' (VIO)

”Related: More than 20 state attorneys general, cludg Oregon, support dispensg abortn pills by mailJim Olke, a law profsor at Lewis and Clark law school, said Wyn’s words echo an argument ma by social nservativ after the Supreme Court’s 2015 cisn regnizg gay marriage Obergefell v Hodg. Ron DeSantis on Wednday over the Republin’s takeover of s theme park district, allegg the ernor waged a “targeted mpaign of ernment retaliatn” after the pany opposed a law crics ll “Don’t Say Gay. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSenate Repeals Ban Agast Openly Gay Milary Angerer/The New York TimDec.

18, 2010WASHINGTON — The Senate on Saturday stck down the ban on gay men and lbians servg openly the ary, brgg to a close a 17-year stggle over a policy that forced thoands of Amerins om the ranks and ed others to keep secret their sexual orientatn.

By a vote of 65 to 31, wh eight Republins jog Democrats, the Senate approved and sent to Print Obama a repeal of the Clton-era law, known as “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” a policy crics said amounted to ernment-sanctned discrimatn that treated gay and lbian troops as send-class cizens. It reprented a signifint victory for the Whe Hoe, Congrsnal advot of liftg the ban and activists who have phed for years to end the Pentagon policy created 1993 unr the Clton admistratn as a promise effort to end the practice of banng gay men and lbians entirely om ary service. Sayg reprented an emotnal moment for members of the gay muny natnwi, activists who supported repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” exchanged hugs outsi the Senate chamber after the vote.

SENATE REPEALS BAN AGAST OPENLY GAY MILARY PERSONNEL

“Today’s vote means gay and lbian service members posted all around the world n stand taller knowg that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ will soon be g to an end, ” said Aubrey Sarvis, an Army veteran and executive director for Servicemembers Legal Defense executive director of the Log Cab Republins, a gay group that challenged the policy feral urt, thanked Republins senators for participatg a historic vote. Aaron Belk, director of the Palm Center California, a rearch stute at the Universy of California Santa Barbara that studi issu surroundg gays and lbians the ary, said that the vote “hers a new era which the largt employer the Uned Stat treats gays and lbians like human begs.

“I’m here bee men and women wearg the uniform of the Uned Stat who are gay and lbian have died for this untry, bee gay and lbian men and women wearg the uniform of this untry have their liv on the le right now.