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As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
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The highlights from last night's debate.
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Via Political Humor...
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Good line.
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I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
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Via Political Humor...
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Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
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…one of the gay rights movement’s most elusive and coveted breakthroughs.
The symbolism of the don’t ask, don’t tell repeal cannot be underestimated. It’s not just that for the civil rights community, it represents a long-awaited extension of the historic arc – first blacks, then women, now gays. It was also Obama decisively transcending the triangulated trimming of Bill Clinton, who instituted don’t ask, don’t tell in the first place. Even more subtly and understatedly, the repeal represents the taming of the most conservative of the nation’s institutions, the military, by a movement historically among the most avant-garde. Whatever your views, that is a cultural landmark.
True, except it should be seen as more than a victory for the gay rights movement. It is a victory for anyone who believes in a just and civil society – one which promotes equality regardless of color, religion or sexual orientation. Let history not forget which political party took on the role of opposition in this epic battle for civil rights.
Proof that sexual orientation plays no part in one’s ability to be a total fool.
Republicans made significant inroads among gay and lesbian voters in the midterm elections, with national exit polls for the House races showing that the GOP captured 31 percent of the vote of this group this year, compared to 19 percent in 2008.
I can understand the LGBT community being frustrated with the Obama administration over specific issues, not the least one being the repealing of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. It’s not happening as quickly as many would have hoped. Fine, gays and lesbians are upset with Dems. Got it. But to go out and cast their vote for a political party which has been a staunch opponent of gay rights across the board is pure lunacy. I have two words for the 31 percent who voted Republican on Tuesday: Religious Right…as in homosexuals are possessed by demons Religious Right.
How does aiding Republicans take over the House help in the struggle for gay rights? For crying out loud, Republicans just had a candidate running for the Senate who openly stated that homosexuality is a “choice” and compared it to alcoholism. You know, they’re both diseases.
Morons. You just cut your nose to spite your face.
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“Well, those [countries] that do [allow gays to serve openly], they’re the ones that participate in parades, they don’t fight wars to keep the nation and the world free.”
It’s one thing to be a homophobe and quite another to be a lying dick. In fact…
Great Britain and Australia, two countries that have contributed significant numbers of soldiers to the war in Iraq and are close allies of the US, both allow gays to serve openly. Israel’s military also permits gay and lesbian troops in its ranks, as do NATO countries including Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain and France, all of which have forces in Afghanistan. Because at the Values Voter Summit, maligning the military forces of key American allies like Israel, Great Britain, and Australia is acceptable as long as it serves the greater goal of denigrating gays and lesbians.
Perkins, just another right-wing whack job intent on never allowing facts to get in the way of a bigoted rant.
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Really, what would the country do without California to inject a little social justice into the system? Earlier this year, a San Francisco judge struck down Prop 8 and now this out of Riverside.
A federal judge on Thursday declared the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional and said she will issue an order to stop the government from enforcing the ”don’t ask, don’t tell” policy nationwide.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips said the ban violates the First and Fifth Amendment rights of gays and lesbians. ”Don’t ask, don’t tell” prohibits the military from asking about the sexual orientation of service members but requires discharge of those who acknowledge being gay or are discovered engaging in homosexual activity, even in the privacy of their own homes off base.
In her ruling, Phillips said the policy doesn’t help military readiness and instead has a ”direct and deleterious effect” on the armed services.
The Log Cabin Republicans, a 19,000-member group that includes current and former military members, filed a lawsuit in 2004 seeking an injunction to stop the ban’s enforcement. Phillips will draft the injunction with input from the group within a week, and the federal government will have a week to respond.
There’s word out that the government will fight the injunction and claim that the courts have no jurisdiction in declaring a nation wide injunction. They’ll say that DADT is a matter for Congress to resolve. Good luck with that, boys. The House has already voted to repeal DADT and it is now up to the Senate to deal with it sometime this year. What that means, of course, is that the dysfunctional Senate could block repeal of DADT if they so wish.
DADT was flawed from the day it was introduced by Clinton in a compromise deal. Hopefully this ruling will give the government the added motivation it needs to finally deal with its repeal free of fear of political fallout.
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The 14th Amendment is a mighty sword, and U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker used it Wednesday to slice and shred all the specious arguments — and I mean all of them — that are used to deny full marriage rights to gay and lesbian Americans. Bigotry has suffered a grievous blow.
Walker found that California’s Proposition 8, which sought to ban gay marriage in the state, violated not one but two of the amendment’s clauses — those guaranteeing due process and equal protection under the law. By deciding the case on constitutional grounds, and by crafting such a detailed and comprehensive ruling, Walker all but guaranteed that the issue will reach the Supreme Court.
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One decision by one federal judge does not settle the controversy over gay marriage. But Walker’s 136-page ruling lays down a formidable marker because it changes the terms of the debate. He frames gay marriage as a question involving the most basic, cherished rights that the Constitution guarantees to all Americans. In doing so, he raises the stakes sky-high: Are gays and lesbians full citizens of this country, or are they something less?
Walker stepped up to the plate and swung for the fences. He hit a home run.
It is only a matter of time before full rights are granted to the gay and lesbian community but if the Civil Rights movement proved anything, it’s that the battle against bigotry will be both long and arduous. Intolerance and hate are formidable foes which understand no logic and while laws can be enacted which sets justice on the right course, acceptance is a different matter. It requires a set of forces which have nothing to do with constitutional rights and everything to do with understanding, intelligence and education. That part of the equation will most likely be with us for a long time to come.
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