{"id":123196,"date":"2024-11-07T19:57:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123196"},"modified":"2024-11-07T19:57:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:57:43","slug":"biden-pardons-veterans-convicted-under-military-ban-on-gay-sex-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123196","title":{"rendered":"Biden pardons veterans convicted under military ban on gay sex | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pFNTiCehMg?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>US President Joe Biden has pardoned thousands of veterans who were convicted of crimes under a military law that banned gay sex for more than 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>The veterans were convicted under a provision of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which criminalised sodomy from 1951 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The US Congress had repealed the portion of the code that outlawed consensual sodomy in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>This military provision is separate from the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; President Bill Clinton-era policy, which banned openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the military.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC\u2019s Caitr\u00edona Perry spoke with Steve Marose, a former US Air Force officer who was charged with three counts of consensual sodomy in the late 1980s. Marose served two years in prison for those charges.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#US #LGBT #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9pFNTiCehMg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden has pardoned thousands of veterans who were convicted of crimes under a military law that banned gay sex for more than 60 years. The veterans were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123196\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}