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supporters of a Bill to reverse "do ask, not explain" political army would lift 17 years ban on openly gay troops army take part in the event on Capitol Hill in Washington, on 10 December 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)SAN FRANCISCO--A three former military personnel who have been discharged under law prohibiting gays to serve openly continued uniform Government Monday to be reinstated and make pressure on legislators to repeal the Act of the "do ask, not explain" before a new Congress is sworn.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco also strives to have the ban on openly gay troops declared unconstitutional and therefore inapplicable to the members of the service.
"I not feel like I'm going against the military, I not really." "I feel just as it is a necessary step to do with this policy," said former Air Force Sergeant Anthony Loverde. "I think that the military, the majority of troops with that I served and those that have been studied to death is with us."
The 31-year-old Loverde Iraq works for a private military contractor that provides the army with the technical support. Also, the trial was filed on behalf of the former Air Force major Michael Almy, 40 and former Navy master 2nd class Jason Knight, 28.
The action came four days after that u.s. Senate for the second time this year blocked a military spending bill that would also have repealed the ban on openly gay troops 17 years.
Senators Susan Collins, R-Maine and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn, have put in place an autonomous measure, but it is not known if it will put a vote before the Senate and the House adjourned for the holidays.
Network defense Servicemembers legal Director Aubrey Sarvis said that the pursuit was booked for legislators if they do not act to repeal "do ask, not explain", the courts could intervene and order a calendar integration which is lower than the suitability of the Pentagon.
"If the Senate cannot act the lame-duck session, we are ready to challenge this aggressively," said Sarvis, group coordinated the continuation and prepared with a private law firm attorneys.
"My point of view, is the first shot over the bow," he said.
The move also aimed to validate the concerns of the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, a defendant named in the action with the heads of service of the Navy and aviation.
A Pentagon study unveiled this month above showed that two-thirds of conceived repealing the ban on gay troops would have little effect on their units. Gates Joins President Barack Obama urging the Senate late "not, ask explain."
He reiterated Friday that if legislators do not act, military leaders could put end to "at the mercy of the courts and all the lack of predictability that implies."
A federal judge in Riverside, California, was held in a different trial in September that the gay ban violates due process and the freedom of expression of American gay rights.
U.S. District judge Virginia Phillips has issued a worldwide immediately stop enforcement of the prohibition, but the 9th u.s. appellate court suspended agenda Phillips.
The combination filed Monday makes - rooted in a position of Supreme Court 2003 - same constitutional claims that private and consensual homosexual activity cannot be prohibited.
It also relies on a decision 2008 the 9th Circuit air violated rights civil flight nurse Margaret Witt when he was shot under "do ask, not explain" without demonstrating that it should be deleted to protect his reserve cohesion or preparation unit.
Counsel for the three plaintiffs in the last combination provide support that allowing gay service members to openly in fact reinforces the armed forces by forcing them does step to keep their sexual orientation, a secret.
Almy, a decorated officer in the Chambers of the Senate last week, when Republicans have refused to leave the repeal of the measure, said he still hopes lawmakers advance can be persuaded to take autonomous, Bill even if this means postponing their holidays.
The son of air force who did not know his son agent was gay, Almy was released in 2006 after another Member of the air force research his computer files a private e-mail what almy wrote to another man, when he was in Iraq. His 13 year career ended with his given a police escort database.
"I spent four Christmases deployed in the Middle East," he said. "If we can do this kind of sacrifice to our country, certainly our Senators can abandon a Christmas to get it."
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