Consider the paradoxes in the following sequence of events: Presidential candidate and Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry, releases a TV ad attacking the honor of lesbian and gay service members, saying, ““I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s …
Category Archives: Gays in the military
Ace, let’s have a chat about DADT
Over at Ace of Spades HQ, from time-to-time recently Ace has been pondering issues of gay equality, such as gay marriage and DADT (“don’t ask, don’t tell”). While he doesn’t see gay and lesbian people as truly human — with unalienable rights and all and the freedom from being forced by government to follow religious …
Ninth Circuit grants Obama’s request to reinstate ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
see more Historic LOL I’m phoning this one in — here’s the press release dated Nov. 1 from the Log Cabin Republicans: (Washington, DC) – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the Obama administration’s request to resurrect the failed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy while they continue defending the law in court. The …
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Althouse’s bravura critique of Obama’s duplicity to gays at his meeting this week with progressive bloggers
Frankly, I was browsing my newsfeed for something easy and funny to post when I came across Instapundit’s post on Obama’s Oct. 27 meeting in the White House with five progressive bloggers in which he links Ann Althouse and JustOneMinute. The five progressive bloggers were Joe Sudbay of Americablog (this post includes a transcript of …
Judge rules ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ military ban on gays unconstitutional
Log Cabin Republicans, a 19,000-member gay and lesbian organization, won an important victory for lesbian and gay equality yesterday when a California judge ruled the military’s ban on gays serving in the military known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” is unconstitutional. The Associated Press reports: RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A federal judge in Southern California has …
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I’m pretty sure we need a federal civil rights law ensuring equality for gays and lesbians before the one for photographers
I was browsing at Ace of Spades HQ and a story there by Maetenloch about law enforcement officers harassing photographers caught my eye because it mentions a case about a Maryland man — who lives near me — who is on trial for videotaping his own arrest for speeding on his motorcycle. This is an …
Obama tosses crumb to lesbian and gay federal employees to dissipate the momentum of gay equality efforts
Well, that’s MY take on Obama’s motives. June is Gay Pride month, which Obama observed last year by tossing an even smaller crumb to gay and lesbian employees. He’s not trying the same gambit this year that he used successfully last year, though — he trumpeted a list of benefits gay and lesbian federal employees …
Conservative milbloggers call for Congress to repeal DADT by December 2010
I spotted this in my headline feed for Ace of Spades HQ — the post is by-lined by Gabriel Malor, who is gay. It’s also in a post by Ben Smith at Politico. I don’t know if it first appeared at the milblog, Blackfive, but I link it below and if you follow the link, …
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Huckabee slander of same-sex marriage didn't go as well as in the past
Former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, in an interview at The College of New Jersey, in Ewing, New Jersey, on Friday slandered same-sex marriage in terms that usually get him congratulations from his supporters and indignation from lesbians and gays, which results in more congratulations from his supporters, all of which Huckabee seems to feed …
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It's time for an openly gay or lesbian justice on the Supreme Court — gay rights activists, get on that, please
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced this morning that he will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of its current term in June or June. Justice Stevens began his service on the Supreme Court on Dec. 17, 1975. He will turn 90 on April 20. Gay rights activists have been passive about …