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Congressman Hunter Outlines GOP Plans to Scuttle DADT Repeal

Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr. (R-CA) joined(link is external) Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association to discuss his legislation to block the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT). The Congressman believes that even though Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen supported the repeal, his new bill will require the more skeptical military officials(link is external) to sign on to the repeal as well. Hunter criticized the repeal during the congressional debate, saying that the military is “not the YMCA(link is external),” and said that if the House does not pass his bill he will try to pass it as an amendment on military appropriations. Later in the interview, Hunter agreed with Perkins that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’s repeal is simply part of the left’s agenda “to use the military to advance a social policy.”

Other Republican leaders including Tim Pawlenty (link is external)and Mitch McConnell (link is external)have also supported efforts to obstruct the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

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