White House seeks stay of DADT ruling
It’s almost as though they’ve been set up (NY Times link);
Saying it would appeal a ruling striking down the law that bans gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the United States military, the Obama administration on Thursday asked the federal judge who issued the ruling for an emergency stay of her decision.
The Log Cabin Republicans, the gay group which brought the case to Virginia Phillip’s court room say it’s typical of the Obama Administration to ignore key constituencies;
“We are not surprised by the government’s action, as it repeats the broken promises and empty words from President Obama avowing to end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ while at the same directing his Justice Department to defend this unconstitutional policy,” said Dan Woods, a lawyer representing the group. “Now that the government has filed a request for a stay, we will oppose it vigorously because brave, patriotic gays and lesbians are serving in our armed forces to fight for all of our constitutional rights while the government is denying them theirs.”
Although I’m no champion of gays in the military, I’m starting to like this decision, at least over the next few weeks.
Category: Military issues
Just the admin trying to play both sides of the fence before the midterms.
This is so dripping with irony and WTF? Karma…….
Rove, you magnificent bastard!
Ya beat me to it, Tim. The timing of this is sure to piss off a lot of Obama’s base. Hell, seems like that’s all he has left right now.
I am of the mind that DADT is going to go away, regardless of whether we think it is a good idea or bad. The best thing we can do now is make the transition as least painful as possible. This court order is probably the WORST possible way of implementing this change in policy.
I know many DADT opponents like to point to the racial desegration of the militay as an example of how this sort of thing can be done, but I would like to point out that even that didn’t happen overnight. The Executive Order was signed by Truman in 1948, but it wasn’t until 1954, almost six years, before the last segregated until was disbanded.
I think that I am oh, so tired of the BS we keep seeing of the feds involved in issues at the state level. Never has so much time or money been wasted in courtrooms.
As for the ruling…I don’t care anymore.
The irony is that DADT is what first allowed gays in the military at all.
So, if the government follows the law after DADT is struck down, then gays will have to be *discharged* for same-sex behavior.