OKLAHOMA: State GOP Rep Wants To Reinstate DADT For Local Nat'l Guard

Oklahoma GOP state Rep. Mike Reynolds has introduced a bill that would reinstate DADT for the state National Guard.

Reynold’s bill would amend the existing state law that allows any able-bodied U.S. citizen or person who has declared intentions of becoming a citizen and who is at least 18 years old and not yet 70 to serve in the Guard. The amendment would prohibit anyone who was ineligible to serve in the U.S. armed forces under federal regulations that were in effect on Jan. 1, 2009, from serving in the Guard. Reynolds said the state is allowed to set its own standards for service in the National Guard and is not required to duplicate standards for the rest of the U.S. military. Lt. Col. Max Moss, spokesman for the Oklahoma National Guard, said the Guard would have no comment on the bill Monday.

Reynolds claims that his bill comes at the request of Guard members.

RELATED: In 2010 whackadoodle GOP Virginia Del. Bob Marshall introduced a bill to ban all homosexuals from the state National Guard. The bill was killed in committee.