Good As You: Don't Ask Don't Tell Roundup
12/04/2012
'I will never move on to another debate!' vows military discrimination's loudest voice
Elaine Donnelly, who has spent the better part of two decades now focused on the issue of keeping LGBT soldiers from fighting and possibly dying for their country, is now condemning (surprise, surprise) the recent same-sex weddings at West Point....
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12/22/2011
Video: One year later, DADT gets fitting kiss off
Sweet: VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- A Navy tradition caught up with the repeal of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" rule on Wednesday when two women sailors became the first to share the coveted "first kiss" on the pier...
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09/20/2011
Inclusive Barracks, Obama
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2011 Statement by the President on the Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell Today, the discriminatory law known as ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is finally and...
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08/25/2011
I'll ask: Why's NOM telling supporters to fear DADT repeal?
The National Organization For Marriage continues to prove that the agenda goes beyond the civil marriage debate on which the group purports to focus: SOURCE: NOM Blog Linking to the American Family Association's fringe, highly skewed One News Now for...
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08/05/2011
Right Knight says inclusive service will wreck military; Enlightened day to have final say
Longtime conservative Robert Knight on Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal: "This is huge. This could have generational impact..And it can't stand. It will wreck our military. People of good conscience will have to leave the military and in fact many...
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07/29/2011
Audio: 'An LGBT San Francisco military'
Bring on the rainbow-hued Rice-a-Roni. For we have an "LGBT San Francisco military" on our hands: [SOURCE: AFA Radio] Is President Obama not owning it? Because he seems kind of okay with this whole thing. Pleased, even. But whatever. Let...
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07/22/2011
It's official: In 60 days, DADT to join Prohibition in Flawed Law Retirement Home
On this, I defer to SLDN and Servicemembers United: (Washington, D.C.) Service members today welcomed a key milestone in repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), as President Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
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07/08/2011
Uncle Sam probably not excluding gays (for now, maybe, possibly)
In the wake of this week's Ninth Circuit decision, here's another positive step on the long, frustratingly winding road that is DADT repeal: The Pentagon has ordered a halt to all separations of gay troops under “don’t ask, don’t tell”...
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06/14/2011
Video: Exacerbating a non-issue, out-of-step with American people
Again from Think Progress: Five GOP Presidential Candidates Would Reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell [Think Progress]
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06/07/2011
The artifice of 'culture war': Generations of pitting negligence against peace
During this morning's "Today" show, Ann Curry read a report about Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal implementation, and specifically the fact that around half of the troops have been trained on repeal without incident. A development to which my husband...
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05/24/2011
Retired. chaplains: But what about our right to say gays are 'immoral and unsafe'?
A group of retired chaplains and supportive people of conservative faith (eighteen folks in total) have sent a letter to the armed forces' Chaplain Chiefs, with the one undaunted goal of halting Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal. Here's just some...
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04/06/2011
Fait accom-pleeeeze: AFA speaker warns of military's Arma-gay-don
The sun continuing to rise and set. Water staying wet. Wars being fought on the basis of diverging religious beliefs. Food remaining more tempting than exercise. A seemingly endless supply of young starlets who have it all yet don't seem...
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02/25/2011
Justice League: Finding common Sens. for #DOMA repeal
Sen. Feinstein announces #DOMA repeal plans [G-A-Y] Sen. Patrick Leahy: I Will Cosponsor Feinstein's Bill To Repeal DOMA [J.M.G.] Sen. Gillibrand: i look forward to Working w/ Sen. Feinstein on repeal of DOMA [G-A-Y] Sen. Patty Murray supports DOMA repeal...
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02/07/2011
WND paints us as WMD; at this point, we can't even muster a courtesy WTF?!
Faced with a journalistic responsibility to unpack debates and a guiding philosophy aimed at contributing to the national conversation in a fair manner, the editors at WorldNetDaily's Whistle Blower magazine have crafted a measured cover story on Don't Ask Don't...
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01/20/2011
Video: For those who wonder why this Chaplain's mainstream conservative press bites dried up
[David Pakman] *** *Last month, Klingenschmitt also encouraged exorcisms on Peter LaBarbera's radio show: Treating lesbian soldiers like Linda Blair, and other far-right DADT casualties [G-A-Y]
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01/14/2011
Someone please buy them a G.I. Joe to fiddle with instead: Rep. Duncan Hunter edition
Of course he is: GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter To Introduce Bill To Blockade DADT Repeal Certification [J.M.G.] "would require the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps chiefs to submit to the congressional defense committees “written certification that repeal …...
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12/31/2010
Audio: Mocking people who want to fight and possibly die for our nation, calling it conservative
We've covered under-the-radar conservative Steve Malzberg several times, frankly because his willingness/desire to use the most churlish anti-gay talking points possible makes him one of the most strident anti-LGBT voices on mainstream talk radio. So now, here's another one for...
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Video: 'Emasculating' and 'gaying down' the army so the terrorists will win
(via: Joe.My.God) Social issues taking up time and budget? THEN. STOP. TURNING. OURT. LIVES. INTO. AN. "ISSUE"!
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12/30/2010
Treating lesbian soldiers like Linda Blair, and other far-right DADT casualties
So you know how folks on the far-right are always talking about how military chaplains are going to be unfairly stifled once sexual orientation no longer poses a liability to any soldier? Yea, well -- for an example of what...
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12/29/2010
Video: The clip John McCain's White House never would've made
Another perspective of the DADT repeal signing ceremony, this time from the official cameras from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Behind the Scenes Video: Signing Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell [White House]
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12/22/2010
Thanks, Leonard
*SEE: Today's historic signing
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12/21/2010
Video: Wrapping up repeal: Host/advocate hosts advocates
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12/20/2010
America on the ropes, says 'pro-family' group on the wane
The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer: Rarely can you point to a moment in time when a nation consigned itself to the scrap heap of history. Today, when the Senate normalized sexual perversion in the military, was that moment for...
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12/19/2010
Tragic day for [groups that asked Santa for gay-less America]
SPLC-designated hate group Family Research Council responds to DADT repeal: “Today is a tragic day for our armed forces. The American military exists for only one purpose – to fight and win wars. Yet it has now been hijacked and...
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12/16/2010
Weekend warriors: Senate forces us to watch C-Span on a Saturday
All reports indicate that the Senate version of the real deal DADT repeal vote (already passed in the House) will come this Saturday: Reid files for cloture on DADT tonight (wonky but important) [AmericaBlog Gay] Reid Files Cloture On Don’t...
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Equality House party loses, gains equal number from each
The 15 House Republicans who crossed party lines and voted for the should-be-non-partisan matter that is Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal: Biggert (R, IL-13) Bono Mack (R, CA-45) Campbell (R, CA-48) Cao (R, LA-02) Castle (R, DE-00) Dent (R, PA-15)...
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12/15/2010
Dear Oliver North:
If you're going to smugly accuse military leaders and members of Congress of not reading a certain document, it's probably best if you yourself don't completely misquote said document. This brief snippet comes from WorldNetDaily Radio -- host Greg Carombos,...
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12/14/2010
Professed supporters stood with procedural obstruction -- yet repeal *backers* are the arm-twisters?!
In their latest call to action against Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, the American Family Association says the following about the Senators who voted against the National Defense Authorization Act but who will likely support standalone repeal: Some Senators who...
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Reid's DADT plan: So covert, you'll only hear about it on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN, web live streams, numerous blogs, Congressional records, The Pentagon Channel, Senators' own press releases....
It's one thing for the Family Research Council to stand against Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal. But really -- this graphic? [SOURCE] Because what we're talking about is an issue that President Obama mentioned on the campaign trail and in...
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Video: Voice of America, Forced Silence in the Same
**** *Call your senators (especially in key areas): Lisa Murkowski (R-AK): 202-224-6665 George Voinovich (R-OH): 202-224-3353 Olympia Snowe (R-ME): 202-224-5344 Richard Lugar (R-IN): 202-224-4814 Judd Gregg (R-NH): 202-224-3324 Scott Brown (R-MA): 202-224-4543 Kit Bond (R-MO): 202-224-5721 Mark Kirk (R-IL): 202-224-2854...
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12/13/2010
Video: Levin seeks his POTUS (President obliged to use spine)
Central Casting couldn't find a better person for the role of gentle grandpa than Senator Carl Levin (D-MI). But when it comes to things like DADT repeal, gentle Carl is ready for some fight: Carl Levin: Obama Lacks ‘A Willingness...
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Focus on the Family's Ashley Horne: Praise God for contrived political obstacles
We of course know that Focus on the Family is typically interested in a political fight's end, regardless of the means it took to get there. But in a recent commentary on Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal that focuses on...
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On DADT, Byrd successor's excuses just don't fly
Newly elected U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is still trying to explain why he supports DADT repeal, but didn't support DADT repeal, but will support DADT repeal at some point: MANCHIN: Again, I was only here three weeks…didn’t know much...
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12/10/2010
Because the Grinch doesn't win: Pro-fairness Sens. push SB 4022
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and GOP Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) have made it official: SENATE BILL 4022 TO REPEAL 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL' INTRODUCED [Towle] The bill will go straight to the...
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Focus on the Family clinches 'victory' from jaws of [procedural obstructionism]
Two ridiculous reactions to DADT repeal's failure, both printed by Focus on the Family: #1: "The U.S. Senate did not allow itself to be bullied into passing legislation that would be harmful to our military,” said Elaine Donnelly, founder and...
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12/09/2010
This is the face of 40 unprincipled votes
In a just-issued press release, the group whose Family Research involves calling for the deportation and/or criminalization of gays praise Senators like John "Maverick" McCain and Jim "Let's Fire Gay Teachers" Inhofe for obstructing what they refer to as an...
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57-40 #DADTFAIL
Needed 60 votes to proceed, only got 57. DADT repeal is dead for the foreseeable future. (*UPDATE, 12/10: SEE NEW PLAN). *** *Though there was one fitting point: Al Franken was the Senator presiding during the cloture vote. Fitting that...
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DADT vote around noon. Possibly, maybe, we think, perhaps.
The cloture vote pertaining to Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal is reportedly scheduled for around noon today (Eastern time). All eyes on Sen Susan Collins (R-ME). When it comes to whether or not we will repeal our lunch, much of...
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12/08/2010
Dear Ann Coulter:
If you're going to resort to stereotypes in order to cruelly slight the brave men and women who serve in the armed forces while gay, then at the very least, please update your references: "Maybe we could have an all-gay...
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And now for another edition of 'Gays are destroying [______]'...
The Illinois Family Institute demonstrates the sort of fair and measured thinking that has come to define the "pro-family" community's contributions to the Don't Ask Don't Tell debate: Will the "Lame Duck" Congress Destroy Military's Morality [IFI] Well you know,...
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Gibbs: 'Under President Obama's watch, we'll get DADT and DREAM done'
Sounds confident. Hope he's right. We're still scarred by that one Nintendo game Santa promised but somehow forgot. This would be waaay worse. ** *More Gibbs: Gibbs: ‘Very, very close’ to ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal [Wash Blade] ALSO, ALSO: Sen Lisa...
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Reversing Pryor reluctance: Right-leaning Dem to do fully right thing
A major turnaround in the DADT conversation. Senator Mark "homosexuality is a sin" Pryor, one of only two Democrats to vote against repeal in the Senate (Blanche Lincoln being the other), has announced that he *will* in fact vote in...
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Video: 'Our traditional anti-gay values'
Poll to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell [Colbert]
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12/02/2010
Audio: Dr. Laura condemns 'absurd discrimination' of gays. Yes, seriously.
On today's radio show, the oft-controversial (to say the least), oft-gay-angering (to say the very least) host actually led with a four minute rebuke of the flawed policy: *AUDIO SOURCE: Dr. Laura -- 12/2/10 [DrLaura.com] The pig that just flew...
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DADT repeal as a 'positive'
In their reactions to the Pentagon report, opponents of Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal keep focusing on the minority percentages who said that changing the policy would produce positive effects or provide the military with added benefit. By which these...
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12/01/2010
Video: FRC's wacky #DADT hoedown
Most of the Family Research Council's Don't Ask Don't Tell press conference was dreadfully boring. Our reactions were pretty close to the guy on the right: But then around the 49:30 mark, president Tony Perkins disappears to places unknown, fill-in...
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Video: 'The bad news is, you're fired anyway'
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11/30/2010
President to Senate: The roadblocks are gone -- don't screw this up!
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2010 Statement by President Obama on DOD Report on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell As Commander in Chief, I have pledged to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t...
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For those who like their wonky data raw: The DADT report in all its lengthy glory
DADT Survey Findings Don't Ask Don't Tell Report: Support plan for implementation of repeal *** **SEE ALSO: Top 9 Findings From The Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Report [TP -Wonk Room]
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ARCHIVED: DADT report's coming out party
At 2PM (ET): Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen will come on the following screen and reveal the details of the long-awaited Comprehensive Review Working Group (CRWG) report, letting the world...
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