02/28/2007
John Edwards Issues Statement on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
In response to the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, a bill calling for the repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy which was proposed by a bipartisan congressional group and Rep. Marty Meehan earlier today, Senator John Edwards released the following statement:
"It is long past time to end the military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy and to allow openly gay men and women to serve in the military. It is critical to our national security that we have the best people in our military. Gay men and women have continually served our country with honor and bravery, and we should honor their commitment and never turn away anyone who is willing to serve their country because of their sexual orientation. This is an issue of fundamental fairness – and our military ought to treat everyone fairly. I applaud Congressman Meehan on his important legislation."
Also, as a follow-up to the post from this morning, gay Iraqi war veteran Eric Alva wrote up a nice piece today over at The Huffington Post.
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Posted 5:03 PM EST by Andy Towle in Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Election 2008, John Edwards, Military, News | Permalink
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I propose we divide towleroad bloggers into two categories: Posters who agree with Andy's politics can post on any thread, as many times as they like, no restrictions.
Posters who disagree with Andy's politics can still have the right to post, but we won't call them posters. Let's call them...
Civil Contributers...
but they can only post one time after all of the other VIP posters have already gone first.
Kinda the same rights, but we won't call them posters because that term is reserved for those whose presence here is welcome, harmonious, um... natural... normal...
Stephen you can be a Civil Contributor... just remember your place.
Posted by: mark m | Mar 1, 2007 7:59:40 PM
Mark M: I'd no problem with your remark up until the last two words...
Posted by: Stephen | Mar 2, 2007 12:01:17 PM
"Marriage" is a religious word. Few religions support gay marriage. Most Americans are regligious. Asking for gay "marriage" instead of for equal Rights, is blatantly begging religious people to a (misguided) "defence" of their religion.
An easy sollution is to remove the M-Word from the governments involvement altogether; leave "marriage" the word for what you do inside your Church, and Civil Union for what you, _regardless_of_orientation_, register with the government. Then you can have equal rights, and equal language, for all, without the religious conflict.
This seems like such a "duh" thing to me. Maybe its easier for me to see the sollution, because I feel the government's involvement is oppressive simple because I'm an Atheist and don't want to have to use a religious word in order to get equal rights.
So to me "gay marriage" offers to give equal rights and respect to religious homosexuals, but not to hetero Atheists.
I was a big Clark supporter, and he is the sort of person that wants anybody who feels left out in society, to be given a way back in. Edwards is nearly as good.
Go Edwards!
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