Kirsten Gillibrand/Patrick Murphy say, “no more, “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”.
Kirsten is showing her true colors (rainbow shades) by moving forward with an Armed Services Committee hearing on “Don’t ask, don’t tell”. Politico wrote this on July 28th.
Gillibrand tried earlier this month to attach an amendment to strike down the policy to the 2010 defense authorization bill, but she could not win the 60 votes needed to move ahead in the Senate.
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“‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ is an unfair, outdated measure that violates the civil rights of some of our bravest, most heroic men and women,” Gillibrand said. “By repealing this policy, we will increase America’s strength — both militarily and morally.”
Yesterday’s Huff Po tells us about Congressman Patrick Murphy taking up the charge as well:
“This policy is going to be repealed in a short matter of time,” Murphy said. As for service members who are being discharged because of their sexuality, Murphy said “If they can hold on, help is on the way. And help is going to come form the Congress and be signed into law by the president.”
Murphy has 168 co-sponsors for legislation that would repeal “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, as well as several commitments from party leadership that the bill will come to a vote.
Thursday evening at Net Roots Nation, President Clinton was interrupted by a heckler asking him about the repeal of DADT:
During his address to the Netroots Nation conference on Thursday night, the former president was interrupted by gay activist and HuffPo blogger Lane Hudson, who asked for Clinton to call for a repeal of DADT. The 42nd president responded with a lengthy and emotional rebuttal in which he described his intentions as noble but ultimately undermined by Congress and unfriendly media.
“You want to talk about ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’, I’ll tell you exactly what happened,” Clinton said. “You couldn’t deliver me any support in the Congress and they voted by a veto-proof majority in both houses against my attempt to let gays serve in the military, and the media supported them. They raised all kinds of devilment. And all most of you did was to attack me instead of getting me some support in the Congress. Now that’s the truth.”
(I’m sure we’ll hear more about it from Stlo7.)
It’s time this was dealt with in short order. Just like same sex marriage, civil rights pertain to all of us.
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