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DADT Signing On Wednesday
President Obama will sign the DADT Repeal bill at a White House ceremony this Wednesday. Though the schedule is being finalized, Gibbs said he expects a formal White House signing ceremony Wednesday morning to sign the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. "I think there are a lot of people who are interested in attending," Gibbs said. Gibbs said White House and Pentagon lawyers are working on "implementation and legal issues" associated with lifting the ban on gays serving openly in the Military.Wi...

DADT Signing On Wednesday
President Obama will sign the DADT Repeal bill at a White House ceremony this Wednesday. Though the schedule is being finalized, Gibbs said he expects a formal White House signing ceremony Wednesday morning to sign the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. "I think there are a lot of people who are interested in attending," Gibbs said. Gibbs said White House and Pentagon lawyers are working on "implementation and legal issues" associated with lifting the ban on gays serving openly in the Military.Wi...

Times Embraces 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Repeal As 'Historic'
The Times marked Repeal of the Clinton-era “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” Legislation preventing gays from serving openly in the Military as “historic,” comparing it to the end of Racial Segregation, in Sunday’s front-page story by congressional reporter Carl Hulse, “Senate Repeals Ban Against Openly Gay Military Personnel.” Hulse often shows favoritism toward Democratic Legislation in Congress and disdain for GOP priorities. His first five sources...

Israel To Allow Second-Parent Adoption
A ruling by a Jerusalem court has cleared the way for Israeli Gay Couples to adopt each others' Children. “This is a big step for the gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community in Israel,” commented lawyer Irit Rosenblum, Executive Director of New Family, an organization that champions the rights of Israelis to marry and build families outside the traditional system. “However, there is still a long road to the desired recognition, since each issue pertaining to Gay Rights is decide

Top 10 Hoaxes Perpetrated by the Left and Trumpeted by a Complicit Media
There’s nothing the left loves more than a Victim. Our entire victim-culture can be summed up into one Oprah Winfrey Show, complete with boxes of Kleenex and clichéd advice about “moving forward” and “finding one’s inner beauty.” Admittedly, it’s tempting to get sucked in. Who doesn’t feel the heart strings tighten when a true story of hardship is presented, complete with video clips of beach walking and wailing orchestral instruments? But ̶...

67 Percent of Marine Combat Forces Say Putting Homosexuals in Their Units Will Hurt Their Effectiveness in the Field, Says DOD R
Monday, December 20, 2010 By Terence P. Jeffrey A U.S. Marine Corps sergeant in action in Sangin, Afghanistan on Nov. 9, 2010. (Defense Department photo/Lance Cpl. Dexter S. Saulisbury, U.S. Marine Corps) (CNSNews.com) - 66.5 percent of U.S. Marine combat forces surveyed by a special Defense Department working group said that putting Homosexuals in their units would hurt their effectiveness in the field, and 47.8 percent of Marines in combat units specifically said putting Homosexuals in t...

Top 10 Hoaxes Perpetrated by the Left and Trumpeted by a Complicit Media
There’s nothing the left loves more than a Victim. Our entire victim-culture can be summed up into one Oprah Winfrey Show, complete with boxes of Kleenex and clichéd advice about “moving forward” and “finding one’s inner beauty.” Admittedly, it’s tempting to get sucked in. Who doesn’t feel the heart strings tighten when a true story of hardship is presented, complete with video clips of beach walking and wailing orchestral instruments? But ̶...

Gay Pride Banners Cause Flap In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO -- The future of rainbow Gay Pride flags that have flown for years along the main stretch of San Francisco's Castro District has come under threat as they bump against another city icon: lampposts with early 20th century origins. A neighborhood association near the heart of the city's gay and Lesbian community contends the flags were illegally hung on the metal lamp posts. City law only allows temporary banners on the posts, which were designated city landmarks in 1991, out of conc...

DADT Repeal Strengthens Commanders Hands?
In an earlier thread, a reader brings up a legitimate beef regarding the treatment of gay and Lesbian servicemembers in a post-DADT world. His concern stems from a situation that happened when he was on Active Duty in the Navy: It’s been my experience observing Gay sailors when I was in the Navy, that they’re perfectly fine when they’re sober. When they get drunk, they let it all hang out. One guy [presumably* one of these gay sailors] on our ship got wasted, and decided to suck off som

ROTC Returning to Harvard?
Following the Senate’s Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the U.S. Military policy that bans Openly Gay and Lesbian Soldiers from serving, Harvard President Drew Faust indicated she would move to recognize ROTC, the military’s college officer training program. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Rea...

Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Opponents Taking Revenge On Russian Arms Treaty
WASHINGTON -- The Repeal of the Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy over the weekend was a major victory for the White House, but it is now imperiling a chief priority: the ratification of the nuclear-arms-reduction pact with Russia known as the New START Treaty. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) had promised the White House early last week that they would deliver the votes necessary to ratify the START treaty if the administration would pull the Repeal of the militar...

Russia reacts to Senate GOP posturing: Warns of changes to treaty
There's nothing like antagonizing a Nuclear Power in a fit of pique over gays being allowed to serve in the Military. The Republican obstruction of and posturing over START Treaty ratification is not amusing Moscow: WASHINGTON — Russia warned the United States Senate on Monday not to rewrite the new Arms Control treaty being debated on Capitol Hill as American lawmakers clashed about the politics of ratification in the waning days of the Congressional session.... “I can only undersc...

No More Mister Nice Blog
A BIT TOO SOON TO RELAX Paul Waldman at Tapped declares victory prematurely: Jonathan Bernstein makes an excellent point about the Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell: [T]his issue will now promptly go away, entirely. Oh, we'll have a bit of reporting on implementation, but seriously: does anyone think that Republicans are going to run in 2012 on re-instating DADT? Or, even less plausibly, on re-instating the ban that DADT replaced? Forget it. It's possible to believe that a DADT vote could be used...

Clinton, Obama Both Get Credit on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal
Maybe it takes a Congress undergoing post-election traumatic syndrome to do the right thing and allow gays and Lesbians in the Military to do their jobs without the added stress of lying about who they are. Maybe it’s something about the Holiday Season that led lawmakers to acknowledge that there’s something very distasteful about asking people to feel ashamed about whom they love. [See a roundup of editorial cartoons about 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.] The more alarming trend is that t...

Dan Choi: McCain Must Have Lost A Screw
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Cocky Virginia Now Disobeying Congressional Repeal of DADT
Virginia, fresh off the thrilling conservative victory of getting a Republican judge to rule part of ObamaCare Unconstitutional, is now looking to ban gays from the National Guard in its state, because playing around with secessionary tactics are the second greatest passion in the South. (#1 passion: the South.) Republican state Del. Bob Marshall is leading the charge on this Legislation and very coincidentally is said to be interested in a run for U.S. Senate. “This policy will weaken mil...

Historic Vote in Senate Repeals Dont Ask, Dont Tell
At 12″30 Pm Pacific, on  Saturday, Dec. 18, the US Senate finally voted 65-31 to Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. For some of us who remember when the antigay policy was first enacted, it is a day for joyful tears and the beginning of mending a deeply wounded broken heart. One of the most moving moments for me in the whole 17-year effort to get rid of the heinous DADT policy came last Nov. 17 when young and old, new and experienced Repeal DADT advocates from GetEQUAL paid hom...

'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal celebrated in S.F.
A dozen people crowded together around a small television set in the lobby of the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Center at noon Saturday, some of them clutching hands, all of them grinning. One by one, they listened as 96 names were called in a room 2,800 miles away. As ayes were tallied, shouts of "Yes!" could be heard, followed by whoops and hollers. When the final 65-31 Senate vote repealing the Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was finally announced, the group...

'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal celebrated in S.F.
A dozen people crowded together around a small television set in the lobby of the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Center at noon Saturday, some of them clutching hands, all of them grinning. One by one, they listened as 96 names were called in a room 2,800 miles away. As ayes were tallied, shouts of "Yes!" could be heard, followed by whoops and hollers. When the final 65-31 Senate vote repealing the Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was finally announced, the group...

Remarks during an LGBT Core Group Event Marking Human Rights Day, ECOSOC Chamber
Thank you all very very much. It’s really great to be with you here today. Friends and colleagues, we’re gathered because of a great victory for the cause of liberty. Sixty-two years ago today, on December 10, 1948, in the cold of a winter night in Paris, the ambassadors to the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Paris was then still bruised and battered from the Nazi occupation. The world was still scarred and shaken from the blo...

Gay rights in focus before UN vote
UNITED NATIONS - A Culture War has broken out at the United Nations over whether gays should be singled out for the same protections as other Minorities whose lives are threatened. The battle will come to a head on Tuesday when the General Assembly votes to renew its routine condemnation of the unjustified killing of various categories of vulnerable people. It specifies killings for racial, national, ethnic, religious or linguistic reasons and includes Refugees, indigenous people and other...

Bay area vets celebrate vote on openly gay troops
(12-18) 15:59 PST San Francisco, CA (AP) -- For gay retired U.S. Navy Commander Zoe Dunning, Saturday's Senate vote to Repeal the Military's 17-year ban on Openly Gay Troops ended a long struggle that included two military discharge hearings. So Dunning cried when she and several other gay service Veterans who gathered to watch the Senate vote at San Francisco's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center heard the final tally. "I'm living proof that the mere presence of an openly ...

Why President Obama Deserves Credit for Dont Ask Dont Tell Repeal
On Saturday, December 18, 2010, the US Senate passed the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 by a 65-31 margin, clearing the way for President Obama to fulfill a promise that many have seen as too long in coming. While the White House has maintained all along that a legislative repeal was the only “durable solution,” many, myself included, felt that the President should have put a Moratorium on DADT discharges until such a repeal could be enacted. Had he done so, how...

romer v. evans, ___ u.s. ___ (1996)
After various Colorado municipalities passed ordinances banning Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation in housing, employment, education, public accommodations, Health and welfare services, and other transactions and activities, Colorado voters adopted by statewide Referendum "Amendment 2" to the State Constitution, which precludes all legislative, executive, or judicial action at any level of state or Local Government designed to protect the status of persons based on their "Homosexual, les...

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Repeal!
The debate about repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," now passed into law, has triggered a long-repressed memory of mine from the '70s. It was when I was hit on by a woman. I was around 20 and taking a women-only martial arts class. I was changing in the locker room when one of the women in the class, Judy, stared at me lasciviously. I automatically turned away and got the heck out of there. My reaction was instinctual; I didn't have to think about it. I felt unnerved, repelled. Guys had...