SAN FRANCISCO – Attorneys for the Department of Justice this morning asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for an emergency stay of Judge Virginia Phillips’ permanent injunction that prohibits enforcement of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

"We respectfully request that the Court enter an administrative stay by today October 20, 2010, pending this Court's resolution of the government's motion for a stay pending appeal, which would maintain the status quo that prevailed before the district

RIVERSIDE -- U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips this afternoon tentatively rejected the Department of Justice’s request for a stay of her worldwide injunction that bars enforcement of the military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

It was a tentative decision, however, as the judge would issue a formal ruling on the matter either later today or tomorrow.

DOJ attorneys vowed to appeal the case to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

WASHINGTON – On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Colorado Republican Senate candidate and Tea Party darling Ken Buck called homosexuality a choice and compared it to alcoholism – a theory debunked by the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association.

Buck’s extremist views and prior lapses of judgment show he is not worthy of representing the citizens of Colorado in U.S. Senate.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and One Colorado call on Buck to correct his dangerous statements immediately.

SANTA BARBARA – Almost a week since a federal judge in Riverside issued a global injunction stopping the enforcement of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, the military has not reported any problems, the Palm Center says.

The think tank at the University of California Santa Barbara has been tracking incidents after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned that the suspension of DADT, which prevents gays and lesbians from serving openly, would have “enormous consequences for our troops.”