I continue to be furious with the liar-in-chief's decision to appeal the rulings in Log Cabin Republicans . v. United States and, based on the calls into Michelangelo Signorile's show on Friday which I listened to yesterday, my anger seems to be the norm. Personally, I believe that I will NEVER, EVER support Obama again. The man is a liar and a spineless bastard. As Michelangelo noted, there WERE warning signs that too many of us, including myself, ignored. Yes, Obama/Biden is better than McCain/Palin, but in retrospect we should have seen the betrayals coming. His spinelessness and failure to deliver on promises in my view was a major cause of the GOP sweep in Virginia last year and I suspect we will see the same thing in Congress within a few weeks. We voted for a leader and got a weak kneed follower instead. Now, the liar-in-chief wants to stay the injunction against discharges under DADT and uses talking points straight from Focus on the Family as part of the justification. The New York Times makes a case for why the injunction should not be stayed. Here are highlights:*
The Obama administration has conjured up some inflated fears to justify its decision to appeal an injunction that brought a screeching halt to investigations and discharges of gay men and women serving in the military.
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To hear the administration tell it, lifting the prohibition on gay men and lesbians openly serving in uniform would undermine global combat operations. In truth, the real potential for harm is to gay service members if the injunction is held in abeyance.
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As justification, the administration made overheated claims that a precipitous change in wartime would have adverse effects on morale, good order, discipline and unit cohesion. Those are the same specious arguments used to justify the benighted policy in the first place. The administration wants to leave it in place while it finishes a study on how to carry out a repeal.
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Clifford Stanley, the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, said in a court filing that ending the antigay policy would require training, and reworking regulations on issues like housing, benefits and standards of conduct. He said the Army had to consider the “rights and obligations of the chaplain corps.” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said the military had to consider whether barracks should be segregated and whether partners of gay soldiers should have benefits. This sounds disturbingly like the creation of a “separate but equal” system.
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Judge Phillips has hit on a simpler, more equitable solution: just stop enforcing “don’t ask, don’t tell.” It has done more to harm military readiness than her injunction possibly could.
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Meanwhile, a piece in the Christian Post gives us an idea of who Obama is really favoring in his Judas like behavior, and it's not the folks that put his sorry ass in office. Words do not adequately express how over I am of Christianist having special rights that trump all else. Here's a sampling of the bullshit Obama and the Department of Defense are favoring and in some cases parroting:
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Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family, said the appeal is “mixed good news” because he fears for the future protection of DADT.
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Hausknecht fears that a federal ruling in favor of repealing DADT will hamper military chaplains and Christian soldiers from expressing their faith.
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“Any kind of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal puts the religious liberties of chaplains at risk,” he highlighted.
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In an openly gay and lesbian military, he said chaplains may be forced to adopt a condoning stance to homosexuality or face discipline. Similarly, Hausknecht said of soldiers, “If they talk about their faith with other soldiers, will those soldiers be disciplined?”
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He believes DADT attacks are “establishing a new religion [in the military] that is pro-homosexuality.” A permanent injunction, he said, will give homosexuality “a moral rubber stamp of approval from the U.S. government.”
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Yes, that's right. Obama's DOD is using Focus on the Family talking points to justify staying Judge Phillips' injunction. Things don't get much more fucked up than that.
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