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Mark, still want that bet on whether Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell will be repealed by the end of 2010? After all, pushing to do so might get Republicans upset or something…..
Archive for the ‘Gay Rights’ Category
January 13th, 2010
The state may discriminate against you if you are gay, but if that makes you sufficiently depressed, it must allow you to drown your sorrows with some really good weed.
January 5th, 2010
Category: Don't ask, don't tell, Elections 2010 and 2012
The Obama Administration needs to start preparing the ground for the November midterms. Here’s what it should do.
October 27th, 2009
Category: Don't ask, don't tell
The Army Secretary says that the military is ready to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Congresmember Bachmann: is he anti-American, too?
October 18th, 2009
Category: Don't ask, don't tell
So says Barney Frank: “early next year.” And if the brass is all lined up, which it appears to be, the bill is a nightmare for Republicans on the Hill.
October 12th, 2009
Category: Don't ask, don't tell, Politics and Leadership
Obama could in fact repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in many (although not all) circumstances.
October 12th, 2009
Category: Don't ask, don't tell
Yes, the President could suspend Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by Executive Order: if he were willing to make a false finding to evade a valid law. Are we now in favor of abuses of Presidential power, just because one of ours is President?
June 21st, 2009
Category: Gay marriage
This weekend I participated in a historic vote by the NYS Bar Association’s House of Delegates to endorse gay marriage legislation. NYSBA is among the first statewide bar associations to back gay marriage and to urge the state legislature to enact the necessary amendment of state law to allow same-sex couples to marry and [...]
May 28th, 2009
How could the California Supreme Court have overturned Prop 8 yet allowed the voters to ban same-sex marriage through a ballot measure — and done so in a principled way? Here’s how.