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By: Obama does signing statement on anti-gay DOD bill "conscience clause"

Obama does signing statement on anti-gay DOD bill "conscience clause" — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:36:20 +0000

[...] From Chris Johnson at the Washington Blade we learn that the President has issued a signing statement in an attempt to water-down an anti-gay, anti- “Dont Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, “conscience clause” in the DOD bill: [...]

By: Mike Ketterman

Mike Ketterman — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:49:00 +0000

Now Evangelicals have a special law just for them selves. Why do they need "special" laws? Are they too good to live with the laws everyone else have to live with?
How many sides of their face can an evangelical talk out of? All that special rights for gays BS, what hypocrites! Evangelicals are just bad people.

By: Michael Bedwell

Michael Bedwell — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:44:43 +0000

IF Commander-in-Chief Obama's "Administration remains fully committed to… protecting the rights of gay and lesbian service members" why has he ignored pleas for the last two years to order the Pentagon to stop ARBITRARILY discriminating against both individual gay service members and gay military couples?

Every gay service member is still officially denied the protections against harassment and discrimination in, e.g., job assignments and promotions of the Military Equal Opportunity Program automatically given to NONgay blacks, women, et al., and every gay service member and his/her partner is officially denied multiple benefits NOT banned by DOMA. Isn't it way past time our paid advocates in Washington DEMANDED that the President stopped talking out of both sides of his mouth?

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Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:39:25 +0000

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