At a campaign stop at a diner in New Hampshire, presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a bee-line towards a man wearing a Vietnam Veteran cap and "sidled up next to him". Although gays have always served in the military, apparently it … [Read more...]
DADT Update: The Service Chiefs Report, The Republicans Fret
The Governments of the States Parties to this Constitution on behalf of their peoples declare: That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed; That ignorance of each … [Read more...]
View on DADT from MassEquality
Marriage equality advocates would like to think the DADT repeal would foreshadow one for the Defense of Marriage ACT (DOMA). While Suffredini sees who can serve in the military and who can marry as closely linked in this issue and … [Read more...]
Harvard shamefully reopens campus to ROTC while throwing transgender students under the bus
Any form of discrimination based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability unrelated to course requirements is contrary to the … [Read more...]
On Actually Ending DADT, Or, “Could It Really Take Another Year?”
"You cannot eliminate even one basic assumption, one substantial part of this philosophy-it is as if it were a solid block of steel-without abandoning objective truth, without falling into the arms of bourgeois-reactionary … [Read more...]
Thanks Mass, for again showing the way forward on civil rights
In the 1700s, when the world's intelligentsia were jawboning the proposition that all men are created equal, it was the good people of Massachusetts that lit the fuse on the thing and got it on. The result was the American Experiment, … [Read more...]
DADT Repeal Imminent!
(From LiL.) Or as good as - the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell has been forwarded past the filibuster threat in the Senate by a 63-33 vote, pretty much assuring its passage. This is a long time coming - the nation, and the military, has … [Read more...]
Let’s Get Organized at the Young Democrats Holiday Social in Dorchester, Wed. 12/15
Come to the Greater Boston Young Democrats Holiday Social next Wednesday to talk about the ways we help the Democrats end the year right and remind Senator Brown to put his constituents' values ahead of his Republican … [Read more...]
And, in the “credit where credit is due” department, good on Scott Brown for backing DADT repeal
Having spent the last several posts trashing Scott Brown's pointless position on unemployment and tax cuts, we will now praise his sensible and courageous stand on repealing the odious Don't Ask Don't Tell policy. Having reviewed the … [Read more...]
A loaded question
Will those of us who have been pissed at Obama for not having pushed hard enough on the Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, now laud and embrace our good and true friend from CT, Joe Lieberman for having been explicitly, consistently out … [Read more...]
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