Reply #20: I guess you haven't followed the DADT history with the Obama

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admin - the "fierce advocacy" of our rights to get the gay dollars, volunteers and votes that became the re-worded, watered down version on the White House website - the total denial that he's made that as CinC that he doesn't have the power to institute an administrative stop of the discharges in the mean time (in spite of numerous groups, including a letter from 77 Congressmen) saying he does have that authority - coupled with the rabid defense of DOMA and the total silence from the White House except a joke about 6 States passing marriage equality laws during the past few months

This isn't splitting hairs - this is politics as usual in the GLBT community -before the election, we're vital and needed to get the win - after the election, our issues are too controversial to be touched because they would interfere with the President's agenda.

The part that I don't understand is what you're stake in this is? You seem pretty intent in this discussion on making this a trivial thing in spite of other's reactions that it isn't and that it's hurtful to them somehow.

• Are you a veteran discharged under DADT? I am.
• Are you a member of the GLBT community that's been told to sit in the back of the bus time and time again because our rights to be treated as whole Americans rather than 3/5ths would just cause too much of a stir and keep us from getting _____________ legislation passed? I am.
• Have you actually read DADT to see what parts could be "changed" (meaning some parts kept) versus "repealed" (meaning some parts done away with) before coming in here to blast everyone upset by this as being "hair splitters"? I've sure as fuck read it a number of times over the past decade and half.

You are posting on a Democratic/liberal/progressive board - can't you see that this isn't a single issue thing, but rather a loud warning to all of our ideals, not just the GLBT ones?

The POTUS, with a supermajority in both the House and Senate now, is backtracking on an issue that has the support of 70+% of the country (including 56% of Republicans who attend church regularly) and has been proven to work in over 26 countries around the world - sounds an awful lot like healthcare reform to me.

Also in the interview, POTUS says he can't choose not to enforce a law - while his admin does exactly that by imposing a 2 year moratorium on certain deportations that they don't agree with to give Congress time to change the law. Or while they keep telling us not to look back at the lawlessness of BushCo/Cheney, we just have to move on.