Out against the ban.After graduating from West Point in 1991, Rebecca Rebecca or Rebekah (both: rēbĕk`ə), wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob. One day, as was her custom, she drew water at the city well; while there she showed kindness to Eliezer, Abraham's servant. Kanis moved up the Army ranks quickly, eventually making captain. She earned the trust and respect of the soldiers she led, and her commanders described her as "the best staff officer in the battalion battalion Tactical military organization composed of a headquarters and two or more companies, batteries, or similar units and usually commanded by a field-grade officer such as a lieutenant colonel. ." Then in October 2000 she quit. "I resigned my commission because of the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy," Kanis says in the new online project Documenting Courage, profiling the struggles of gay and lesbian soldiers. "I was deeply in love with someone, and I decided not to put my career before my relationship." The project is a joint venture of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) is a non-profit legal services, watchdog, and policy organization in the United States. SLDN is dedicated to ending discrimination and harassment of gay and lesbian U.S. , American Veterans for Equal Rights, and the Human Rights Campaign. It's designed to build support for the Military Readiness Enhancement Act The Military Readiness Enhancement Act (H.R. 1246) is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on February 28, 2007. Sponsored by Representative Marty Meehan (D-MA) with 136 cosponsors, the bill is currently in committee. , which seeks to end the military's prohibition prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages, the extreme of the regulatory liquor laws. The modern movement for prohibition had its main growth in the United States and developed largely as a result of the of gays and currently has over 100 cosponsors in the U.S House of Representatives. Check it out at www.sldn.org/documentingcourage. |
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