Don't Ask Don't Tell Act of 2023

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## Act of the Chawopolis Palace

Imperial Coat of Arms of the Empire of Chawosauria

## Legislative History

* **Passed with unanimous consent by the** 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government **and the** Independent Checkers **on** March 7, 2023**.**
* **Signed into law by** General Secretary Linghu Xiaoliang **on the behalf of** Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker **on** March 7, 2023**.**

The **Don't Ask Don't Tell Act of 2023** is a Chawosaurian military service law and amendment to the Caspian Sea Resolution that forbids Religious Chawosaurians from serving openly in the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces. It received unanimous consent from the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government and Independent Checkers and signed into law by General Secretary Linghu Xiaoliang on March 7, 2023.

The Chawosaurian version of Don't Ask Don't Tell forbids Religious Chawosaurians from serving openly in the military, it was inspired by the American version of Don't Ask Don't Tell which had forbid Homosexuals from serving openly in the United States Armed Forces and its repeal was opposed by religious conservatives as well as those in Chawosauria, the irony of this entire Don't Ask Don't Tell situation in Chawosauria is not coincidental. Anti-LGBT religious groups in Chawosauria certainly do not enjoy the karma, and they fiercely protested against the Don't Ask Don't Tell Act of 2023.

The Don't Ask Don't Tell Act of 2023 repeals the Military Uniform and Code of Conduct, making that one of the policies of the anti-communist Abooksigian Monarchies of the late 2010s that were repealed by the Chawosaurian Communist Party-led 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government, joining the Nobility Act of 2019.

## Background

Religious Chawosaurians were allowed to serve in the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces until 1976, when the 15th Chawopolis Palace passed a law that bans religious people from the military. Until 2017 during the Chawosaurian Revolution, when Supreme Leader Degotoga K. Atagulkalu ordered that religious people should be allowed in the military. Issuing the Military Uniform and Code of Conduct.

In the United States, LGBT Americans have historically been a shunned community due to the widespread influence of religion, especially the influence of Christianity. Because of this, LGBT Americans have always been banned from U.S. military service, but as a result of the 1969 Stonewall riots, LGBT Americans have been gaining rights, homosexuality had been decriminalized one state at a time during the 1970s but the decriminalization of homosexuality were paused due to the AIDS outbreak during the 1980s, but re-escalated when new information about AIDS exonerated the LGBT community. The U.S. Supreme Court declared that the last remaining sodomy laws were unconstitutional on June 26, 2003.

Within this timeline in LGBT American history, U.S. President Bill Clinton was of the first LGBT-friendly Presidents of the United States that he at first wanted to desegregate the U.S. military to allow LGBT Americans to serve, but this quest hit a brick wall and was forced to opt for a compromise policy known as "don't ask don't tell", which states LGBT Americans can serve as long as their identity is kept a personal secret. Those who failed to keep their LGBT identity a secret are discharged from military service. The policy ruled the U.S. Armed Forces from 1994 to 2011, when the policy was repealed by the Obama administration and the 111th U.S. Congress, fully allowing LGBT Americans to serve whether they're openly LGBT or not. Religious American communities have long opposed LGBT military service.

All of this inspired the creation of the Don't Ask Don't Tell Act of 2023 in Chawosauria. It is also a sweeping consequence of the 2023 Chawosaurian elections, the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government ramped up the policy.

## Provisions

Religious Chawosaurians are outright banned from military service, at least openly. Religious tests are up to Continental Federal Republics. Outed Religious Chawosaurians are discharged dishonorably.

## Responses

The response from Religious Chawosaurians was universal outrage, but the fierce anger comes from religious conservatives, mostly because of the ironic position they were put in because they were vocal in their opposition to LGBT military service. The Chawosaurian general public were universally supportive, polls show that approval ratings of DADT being at 87% or over.

## Karma

Many religious conservatives who opposed the ending of the U.S. Don't Ask Don't Tell policy would be against the Chawosaurian Don't Ask Don't Tell law. Which is strategically the point of the Don't Ask Don't Tell Act of 2023 passed by the Chawosaurian government, it is to put religious conservatives in "a karmatic position" knowing that in Chawosauria, religious people are not allowed to serve openly in the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces.

The irony and karma was well received by the Chawosaurian public, who by the way overwhelmingly support banning religious people from military service. General Secretary Linghu Xiaoliang admitted to silently laughing while signing the Don't Ask Don't Tell Act into law, knowing that the very same people who did not want gay people to serve in the military are now the ones crying that they can't serve in the military in Chawosauria.

The choice of the name "don't ask don't tell" for a Chawosaurian military law that bans religious people from serving openly is no close to an accident. Even religious conservatives concede that this is "revenge" for their historical opposition to LGBT people from serving openly in militaries around the world.

## See also

* 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government
* Military Uniform and Code of Conduct