“Any kind of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal puts the religious liberties of Chaplains at risk..,”

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay on the injunction on “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” allowing the Pentagon to conduct a second study and turning the spotlight to President Obama’s efforts to repeal the military policy in the U.S. House and Senate.

A day after U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips rejected the Department of Justice’s arguments, a three-member judiciary panel of the Ninth Circuit Court granted the temporary stay, suspending the order for an immediate DADT repeal.

The Pentagon, which asked for time to conduct a study in the appeal hearing, planned to conduct a second long-range study of the impacts of a possible repeal to be released Dec. 1.

The first study was criticized as disingenuous and misleading after it was leaked to the press in July. The Pentagon has long feared that changes to DADT would result in disorder and “military unreadiness.”

In a letter to Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) of the House Armed Services Committee, Navy Chief of Operations Adm. Gary Roughead voiced his concern, saying legislative changes at this point, regardless of the precise language used, “may cause confusion on the status of the law in the Fleet and disrupt the review process itself by leading sailors to question whether their input matters.”

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