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TPMThe prospect of a vote moving Don't Ask, Don't Tell one step closer to being repealed in the Senate tonight is sending the vehemently anti-repeal Family Research Council into a bit of a tizzy. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to call for a cloture vote on the defense spending bill that includes a repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service -- possibly sometime this evening -- and the FRC is firing up its phone banks in response.
"Call your Senators today," an "Action Alert" email sent this afternoon by the FRC reads, "and tell them to stop using the military to impose this Administration's radical anti-life/pro-homosexual agenda."
The FRC, a leader in conservative social politics, has led some of the most ardent opposition to repealing DADT. The action alert email tonight could signal that the group is worried that the end of the fight is near -- and that it's not ending the way they hoped.
The group's continued support for a ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen -- as well as other anti-gay rights rhetoric coming from the group -- recently earned the FRC a place on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups.
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