AmericaBlog’s Joe Sudbay provides an excellent summary of a conference call with Servicemember Legal Defense Network Executive Director Aubrey Sarvis, which I encourage you to read in full. Sarvis talked about the logistics of the movement to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t’ Tell. The discussion focused on the effects of the letter Defense Sec. Robert Gates sent to the House Armed Services Committee on April 30 saying he does not favor a legislative repeal until after the Pentagon has completed its report on repeal implementation, expected on Dec. 1. The committee marks up H.R. 5136, the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2011, Wednesday but no movement on DADT-repeal action is expected, though Sarvis said there is a possibility that Republicans might offer a hostile amendment.
Levin “is beginning to feel more confident but we’re still not there,” Sudbay reported. Sarvis said “we’ve got to keep pushing…..we’re still not there yet.” The Congressional switchboard is 202-224-3121; tell them where you live and ask to speak first with your representative and then your senator. On their site, SLDN provides a script, if you don’t know what to say.
I joined the conference call late but heard Sarvis talk about needing President Obama to step up are urge Senators to repeal DADT. Sarvis said: “That’s not happening and the question is why?”
Please click inside for more – but here’s a sound bite from Sen. Carl Levin at a March 3 news conference where Levin said he doesn’t find the arguments used to justify DADT convincing:
Despite support from President Barack Obama, Sec. of Defense Robert Gates, top Pentagon leaders and former Vice President Dick Cheney for a repeal of the military’s antigay policy “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the Associated Press reports that a repeal “is probably years away.”
That’s not good enough, says a coalition of LGBT and straight bloggers who want readers to call HRC to pressure the Administration, Congress and the military to move faster.
Please click inside for more info, including who’s swarming, why and other ways to respond to DADT. UPDATED with new information and resource.
“The Devil screams the loudest just before leaving the room.”
After last night’s devastating loss of marriage equality in Maine 52.84% – 47.16% – an almost exact mirror of the loss of constitutionally protected same sex marriage rights with Prop 8 in California – it’s time to call out the “Devil” cleverly disguised as the antigay forces of the Religious Right. Click inside to read my analysis and challenge to those who call themselves Christians.
AmericaBlog’s Joe Sudbay provides an excellent summary of a conference call with Servicemember Legal Defense Network Executive Director Aubrey Sarvis, which I encourage you to read in full. Sarvis talked about the logistics of the movement to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t’ Tell. The discussion focused on the effects of the letter Defense Sec. Robert Gates sent to the House Armed Services Committee on April 30 saying he does not favor a legislative repeal until after the Pentagon has completed its report on repeal implementation, expected on Dec. 1. The committee marks up H.R. 5136, the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2011, Wednesday but no movement on DADT-repeal action is expected, though Sarvis said there is a possibility that Republicans might offer a hostile amendment.
There’s an old saying:
Subscribe to RSS
