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...addition, Obama followed through on a campaign promise by making a clear commitment to seek the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” the law banning open homosexuality in the military. While in the past Obama hedged his bets on this divisive issue by using unclear language and varying his opinion based on his audience, such a public announcement indicates his seriousness about tackling the issue openly. Presenting a plan when he had the full attention of the media and the country as a whole was a transparent...
Calling the policy “discriminatory,” Murphy said he was “privileged to be leading the fight” to repeal the measure, first enacted...
...congressman also discussed his efforts to repeal the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gay servicemen...
Only a few weeks ago, the passage of Maine’s Question 1 overturned recent state legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry. Prior to the repeal, Maine had been one of only five states to legally recognize marriage between same-sex couples. The vast majority of states have Defense of Marriage Acts—limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples—on the books. Given that the right to marry is still withheld from many individuals because of their sexual orientation, Phillips had good cause to question the existence of “liberty and justice...
...march itself was predictable. It was a farrago of left-wing rhetoric (anticorporate, proimmigrant, etc.) and respectfully anti-Obama rhetoric. "Easter egg rolls on the White House lawn are nice, but enactment of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act are more important," thundered New York City union official Stuart Appelbaum, who was referring to Obama's invitation earlier this year to at least one lesbian couple to bring their kids to the White House's Easter event...