http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/01/15/hagel-commits-to-extending-partner-benefits-to-gay-troops/ the gay community's news source Mon, 20 May 2013 23:40:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/01/15/hagel-commits-to-extending-partner-benefits-to-gay-troops/#comment-91752 Hagel pledges to move 'expeditiously' on benefits for gay troops | Gay News | Washington Blade - America's Leading Gay News Source Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:02:38 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=56555#comment-91752 [...] questionnaire responses on build off a commitment he expressed earlier in a Jan. 14 letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer in which he said he supports “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal and would [...]

]]> http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/01/15/hagel-commits-to-extending-partner-benefits-to-gay-troops/#comment-90017 Michael Bedwell Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:34:55 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=56555#comment-90017 Yet, AGAIN, we ask why SLDN has failed to address the REAL problem: the now two-year old REFUSAL by the President/Commander-in-Chief to order ANY of his Secretaries of Defense to extend the multiple benefits to gay military couples not banned by DOMA and to issue an order banning discrimination against LGB service members given the Pentagon has REFUSED to include them in the protections against harassment and discrimination of the Military Equal Opportunity automatically guaranteed to nongay service members on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, and religious or political affiliation. They should be demanding ACTION by MR. OBAMA NOW not licking after pie-in-the-sky promises by his latest nominee who can/will do nothing without the President's approval. "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." – former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass.

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