Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Earlier this month, President Obama asked the Department of Health and Human Services to order all hospitals that participate in Medicaid and Medicare to allow patients to designate who shall be allowed to visit them and make medical decisions on their behalf. This is one of the most pro-LGBT rights policies so far adopted by [...]
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
“This is a policy,” Hutson continued, that was “devised primarily by men who, like me, were born in the ‘40s and grew up in the ‘50s, but was being imposed on people who were at that time born in the ‘70s and grew up in the ‘80s. Now it’s born in the ‘80s and grew [...]
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Gen. Colin L. Powell, who as the nation’s top military officer in the 1990s opposed allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military, switched gears today and threw his support behind efforts to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law he helped shepherd in. “In the almost 17 years since the ‘don’t [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6uZ7RgmUM[/youtube] John McCain in 2006: “And I understand the opposition to it, and I’ve had these debates and discussions, but the day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, senator, we ought to change the policy, then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it because those leaders in the [...]
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, speaks in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee in support of President Obama and Sec. Robert Gates‘ review of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, saying, “It is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X83IdnqOSdk[/youtube] There is [...]
The Pentagon is stepping up internal discussions on how gay men and lesbians might be able to serve openly in the armed services, military officials said on Thursday, in anticipation of fulfilling President Obama’s campaign pledge to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law. The discussions, centered in a small group assembled by Adm. Mike [...]
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
President Obama has said that he supports the repeal of the military’s ban on gay soldiers. He hasn’t, however, used his executive authority to suspend the policy, as gay rights activists have called on him to do. More than two hundred gay servicemembers have been expelled from the military since Obama took office in January. [...]
Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Joint Force Quarterly article highlights many of the painful consequences of a discriminatory and ineffective policy [Don't Ask, Don't Tell], most notably the fact that it undermines unit cohesion, though it was intended to do the opposite. “In an attempt to allow homosexual service members to serve quietly, a law was created that forces [...]
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