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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Needs to Resonate With Pro Sports -- Now
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsFour years into the Second World War, Lt. Carlton Skinner, the commander of the U.S. weather ship Sea Cloud in the North Atlantic, sent a memo up the Navy's chain of command. He requested that it allow him to start training black seamen, long relegated to menial tasks, for critical jobs reserved for white sailors. Skinner argued that an integrated ship would run smoother. The Navy acquiesced. In early 1945, two years before baseball allowed Jackie Robinson to re-integrate its ranks after more than half a century, upwards of 50 black sailors, including two officers, joined the Sea Cloud crew. ...
DADT Repeal: What Will -- And Likely Won't -- Happen
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Now that President Barack Obama has signed the repeal of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, what happens next? Here is what will -- and what some predict will -- take place as the military lifts the ban on open military service by gays and lesbians. Definitely Will Happen: Nothing immediately. DADT remains in effect until 60 days after Obama and military leaders certify they have a plan of action to ensure a smooth transition. That could take months. Implementation. Changes to policies, the Uniformed Code of Military Justice, personnel benefits and other areas ...
Senate Showdown Looming Over 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Senate will take a key vote Tuesday to avoid a Republican filibuster on the Department of Defense Authorization bill, the annual legislation that sets policies and spending levels for the Pentagon. But two controversial additions to the bill -- language to begin the repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the military and a last-minute amendment to give young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship -- have significantly complicated the bill's fate. "Do we have the votes?" Sen. Carl Levin said Monday at a press conference. "My answer is, 'I don't know whether we have the votes or ...
Lady Gaga Taking DADT Message to Maine's Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyLady Gaga is taking her "Don't ask, don't tell" repeal message to Maine on Monday and there are two people in particular she wants to hear it: Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. The flamboyant and outspoken singers will urge the lawmakers to support the defense authorization bill that also repeals the Pentagon policy on gays serving in the military. Lady Gaga announced the event, which takes place at 4 p.m. in Portland, over Twitter to her 6.3 million followers on the social networking site. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) responded directly to Lady ...
Attitudes Toward Gay Rights Changing, but Soldiers Still Victimized
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyThe issue of gay marriage reached a polling milestone last week when, for the first time, a majority of Americans (52 percent) agreed with this statement in a CNN poll: "Gays and lesbians should have a constitutional right to get married and have their marriage recognized by law as valid." But polls are tricky, and when the word "should" was removed, and the statement became more declarative, sentiment shifted to the other side, with those saying no in the slight majority (51 percent). Still, the takeaway, according to Nate Silver, polling analyst and founder of the premier polling site ...
Crazy Costumes Come Out of the Closet for Gay Pride
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(June 28) -- Forget the holiday season; June is the time of year when people don their gayest apparel. Cities around the world celebrated gay pride parades last weekend, allowing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer communities to come together, often in costume. Revelers marched through New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Mexico City, Berlin and Guatemala City, among other locations, dressed in elaborate get-ups in all shades of the rainbow. ...
Testy GOP, Heckler Confront Obama on Immigration, Energy, Gay Rights
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama says his meeting with Senate Republicans Tuesday was "warm and fuzzy" -- but he was kidding. By most accounts the private luncheon left both sides testy and accomplished little in the way of promoting bipartisanship. Obama talked about his let's-have-lunch date with Republicans later Tuesday during a fundraiser in California, where he had to deal with a heckler who complained that the president was not moving quickly enough to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" restriction on gays serving openly in the military. The repeal bill is expected to come up later this week in the ...
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': Way May Be Clear for Repeal of Military Gay Ban
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyOffice of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag notified key members of Congress late Monday that the Obama administration will support a specific measure to repeal the Pentagon's longtime ban on gays serving openly in the military. The news, which one advocate called "a dramatic breakthrough," virtually assures the measure will pass Congress later this week. As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama vowed to end the military's policy within his first year in office, but progress of the repeal has been marked by fits and starts since his inauguration as he focused on the wars in Iraq ...
Elena Kagan: No Friend of the Military
By Peter Wehner - Politics DailyElena Kagan may be a brilliant constitutional scholar and first-rate legal mind -- but if she is, she has done a mighty fine job of hiding her intellectual light under a bushel. She has left almost no paper trail and has made no significant, or even particularly notable, contributions to our understanding of law, legal theory, or the Constitution. She appears to have been a bright, able, and well-liked dean of Harvard Law School. But President Obama's claim that "Elena is widely regarded as one of the nation's foremost legal minds" is -- let's be generous here -- quite an overstatement. ...
American Bar Association Comes Out Against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe nation's largest lawyers group has has officially come out against "Don't ask, don't tell," the 1993 law that forbids openly gay people from serving in the military. In three separate letters Monday to both chambers of Congress and the Department of Defense, the American Bar Association called for an end to DADT and offered legal assistance in drafting a new policy. "We opposed enactment of this policy in 1993 as establishing a form of discrimination that was not based on the character of the servicemember's contribution to the national defense," ABA President Carolyn Lamm wrote. "The ...
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