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	<title>Comments on: Pelosi endorses executive order against LGBT job discrimination</title>
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		<title>By: Michael Bedwell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Bedwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRAVA! But where&#039;s her endorsement of &quot;the idea of President Obama issuing an executive order barring [the Pentagon] from engaging in anti-LGBT job discrimination [IN the military post actual repeal]&quot;???? It was she who revealed to reporters in a conference call last year that, quote, &quot;the House WEAKENED ITS REPEAL LANGUAGE TO MOLLIFY THE WHITE HOUSE. Military leaders REFUSED TO ACCEPT LANGUAGE THAT WOULD BAR DISCRIMINATION, so the clause was dropped.” - Huffington Post, June 3, 2010, emphasis mine.

Where&#039;s her endorsement of an Obama executive order that the Pentagon not be allowed to deny gay military partner benefits that are NOT banned by DOMA such as access to &quot;military housing&quot;? The DoD has already explicitly said they INTEND to apply these forms of arbitrary discrimination, yet, our Commander-in-Chief is doing NOTHING about it.

Of course, if we had REAL gay service member advocacy groups instead of the co-opted posers at SLDN, SU, and [NOT]OutServe, both issues would have been made our Community&#039;s cri de coeur beginning LAST YEAR, the moment they found out about it. Not wanting to be taken off the White House invitation list—or simply too witless or spineless—they&#039;ve, instead, left most of or Community in total, blissful ignorance that actual repeal no longer means actual equality.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BRAVA! But where&#8217;s her endorsement of &#8220;the idea of President Obama issuing an executive order barring [the Pentagon] from engaging in anti-LGBT job discrimination [IN the military post actual repeal]&#8220;???? It was she who revealed to reporters in a conference call last year that, quote, &#8220;the House WEAKENED ITS REPEAL LANGUAGE TO MOLLIFY THE WHITE HOUSE. Military leaders REFUSED TO ACCEPT LANGUAGE THAT WOULD BAR DISCRIMINATION, so the clause was dropped.” &#8211; Huffington Post, June 3, 2010, emphasis mine.</p>
<p>Where&#8217;s her endorsement of an Obama executive order that the Pentagon not be allowed to deny gay military partner benefits that are NOT banned by DOMA such as access to &#8220;military housing&#8221;? The DoD has already explicitly said they INTEND to apply these forms of arbitrary discrimination, yet, our Commander-in-Chief is doing NOTHING about it.</p>
<p>Of course, if we had REAL gay service member advocacy groups instead of the co-opted posers at SLDN, SU, and [NOT]OutServe, both issues would have been made our Community&#8217;s cri de coeur beginning LAST YEAR, the moment they found out about it. Not wanting to be taken off the White House invitation list—or simply too witless or spineless—they&#8217;ve, instead, left most of or Community in total, blissful ignorance that actual repeal no longer means actual equality.</p>
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