Comments on: Would President Romney undo pro-LGBT advances?

By: Joe Sudbay: Back To Work: All Eyes On Full LGBT Equality | Political Ration

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:41:50 +0000

[...] In 2008 the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) and other groups made lists of over 100 high-priority administrative changes that they’d like to see. We need to make those requests transparent and get them done. These federal policy recommendations do not require congressional approval and would concretely affect the lives of LGBT Americans, but many have stalled. It has been difficult to judge the process on the recommendations because HRC and NGLTF hid their lists after activists started inquiring about progress. (Here are cached versions of NGLTF’s and HRC’s recommendations.) One more note: For all those who claim that these changes are not durable, they are. [...]

By: What We’re Reading: Reminders of War, Home Health Workers, What Makes a Family, and Culture as a Toolbox | BCRW Blog

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:22:08 +0000

[...] same-sex parents. Supported by the federal government, Amtrak’s symbolic move follows a number of changes made recently by the executive branch to better support LGBT people. Yet as Terry Boggis reminds us [...]

By: Happy Obama gay day | Hunter of Justice

Happy Obama gay day | Hunter of Justice — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:41:42 +0000

[...] for the annual June LGBT reception. Also yesterday, the Washington Blade published this round-up of potentially at-risk administrative law changes that the Obama Administration has made in the [...]

By: Newt's Fourth Wife

Newt's Fourth Wife — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:31:32 +0000

“Moreover, the Administrative Procedures Act — a law enacted by Congress in 1946 governing the way in which administrative agencies may propose and establish rules — prohibits a quick change in regulation if a hostile administration takes over. Instituting new final regulations repealing these policies would be a multi-year process and require a justification for overturning them other than for political reasons.”

So you think a Mitt Junta will give any more of a damn about obeying the law – much less the Constitution – than the Bush Junta did?

Moreover, courts would have to quash any such chicanery. Here are five reasons why Mitt the dog-abusing, draft-dodging, cop-impersonating Flip will have carte blanche to do anything he and his Wall-Street-ensconced owners want to do: Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito and sometimes Kennedy but definitely whoever they install to replace Ginsburg when she dies.

By: 22 LGBT Advances That (Probably) Will Disappear Under A President Romney | Life Within The Rainbow

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:37:39 +0000

[...] “Would President Romney undo pro-LGBT advances?,” Johnson notes: Many of the pro-LGBT advances that have happened under the Obama administration [...]

By: jon

jon — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:31:10 +0000

I pray to god Romney DOESN’T GET ELECTED as I and a lot of others will defect to Canada

By: brian

brian — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:43:16 +0000

Disturbing, but thorough reporting from the Blade.

So it is essential that President Obama be re-elected. And in neighboring Virginia, which the president carried in 2008, it is essential that Tim Kaine beats George Allen (2006′s guy with a ‘macaca’ fetish) so Dems can retain the Senate seat from which Dem Senator Jim Webb is retiring.

Pro campaign strategists say it will be difficult for Romney to get to 270 without Virginia’s electoral votes. District Obama voters ought to also consider helping the Obama campaign get out the vote in Virginia, as Virginians likely to vote for Obama are also likely to vote for Kaine.

By: I'm just sayin

I'm just sayin — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:40:42 +0000

So Log Cabin’s junior apologist “doubts” that Romney will roll back gay equality advances and non-discrimination protections? Sorry Mr. Berle, but there is no amount of logic, regardless of how convoluted, that could produce a compelling argument for an equality minded LGBT voter to cast their ballot for a man who unequivocally has pledged to “do things to us” rather than re-elect a man who has pledged to continue his track record of “doing things for us.”