Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs
The commander-in-chief, secretary of defense, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff all support removing the ban on gays in the military without further delay. A long-awaited Pentagon study showed no reason not to do so. But three of four Service chiefs disagree.
Despite the Defense Department releasing its study showing that the effects of allowing gays to serve openly would be minimal, Senator John McCain isn’t convinced.
New details are out about the upcoming Defense Department report on repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
The odds that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will be repealed anytime in the near future are fairly close to zero thanks to the results of last Tuesday’s elections.
One of the last arguments against allowing gay men and women to serve openly in the military — that active duty military would be unable to serve alongside them — appears to have no empirical support.
The Pentagon has reinstated Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell under procedures that will make the discharge process more difficult. Which is good because it doesn’t look like DADT will be repealed any time soon.
Only days after a Federal Court Judge issued an injunction preventing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy from being enforced, Obama Administration has asked for a stay and announced that it will be appealing the case.
A Federal Judge in California has struck another blow to the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Now, the ball is in President Obama’s court.
While Congress continues to refused to act, another Federal Judge has struck a blow against the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.
The effort to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell suffered a setback in the Senate today that likely delays any further moves on the issue until after the midterm elections.
The effort to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policies faces it’s biggest test yet today in the Senate, and the prospects are not good for advocates of repeal: The Senate is planning to vote Tuesday on whether to end debate on a $725.7 billion annual defense policy bill, a measure that includes a [...]
The prospect of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell before the November elections is in doubt thanks to a threatened filibuster led by Arizona’s John McCain.
A case out of Texas demonstrates quite aptly the absurdity of the current patchwork quilt approach to same-sex marriage in the United States.
If there’s an area where our attitudes and behaviors have changed more radically in my lifetime than gender equality, I can’t think of it.
The New York Times realizes that most Republicans just don’t care that Ken Mehlman is gay. Surprise, neither do most Americans at this point.
The guy who ran George W. Bush’s campaign and the Republican National Committee has realized after only 43 years that he likes dudes.
Ann Coulter has been dis-invited from a World Net Daily conference for her decision to speak at a convention sponsored by a gay conservative group.
Mary Cheney, who is openly gay and raising two children with another woman, has given $500 to New Hampshire Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte, who is “against same-sex marriage and believes marriage is between a man and a woman.”
Career fields dominated by women tend to pay less than those dominated by men. But gender discrimination isn’t the main reason.
Same-sex marriages are still barred in California, but how long that lasts is in the hands of three judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Under pressure from the Feds, the NCAA is cracking down on colleges who put women’s games ahead of men’s games, which some say relegates them to “warm-up act” status.
Judge Walker lifted the stay on his Order declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional, but the big news may be the procedural defect that could doom any appeal.
There’s not as much conservative unity on the gay marriage issue as there used to be.
Attractive women face discrimination when applying for “masculine” jobs. The benefit from their attractiveness in all other jobs, however.
Tish Long, the new director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), is the first woman to head a major U.S. intelligence agency.
This was perhaps the most interesting of all of the interviews on the Sunday shows this morning. Ted Olson, former Solicitor General for George W. Bush and the man who argued and won Bush v. Gore before the Supreme Court in 2000, talking to Fox News’s Chris Wallace about last weeks ruling on Proposition 8: [...]
The Republican Party is keeping relatively quiet on the Proposition 8 ruling. That’s a good idea.
That attitudes towards gay marriage varies by state won’t surprise you. The degree to which it does just might.
What impact will Judge Walker’s decision on Proposition 8 have on politics in 2010 and beyond ?
U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker today declared California’s Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional, thus opening the latest front in the gay marriage wars.
Using an attempt to patent a Viagra for women as a hook, Camille Paglia muses about sexuality among the WASP UMC: In the discreet white-collar realm, men and women are interchangeable, doing the same, mind-based work. Physicality is suppressed; voices are lowered and gestures curtailed in sanitized office space. Men must neuter themselves, while ambitious [...]
San Francisco’s gay pride parade celebrates its 40th anniversary with Nancy Pelosi, the Backstreet Boys, and some dudes riding bike’s nekkid.
Fathers have been misrepresenting the amount of time they spend taking care of their kids for generations. These days, they’re lying in a different direction. A new Boston College study makes the modern American dad look positively Swedish in his dedication to his children and his zeal to participate equally in raising them. The yearlong [...]
Alabama talk hosts “Rick and Bubba” are catching some flak for their ridiculing President Obama’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month proclamation. Pam Spaulding calls it an “incredible homophobic rant about sin, adultery, fornication and everything but the kitchen sink” that “embod[ies] all of the embarrassing redneck stereotypes about southern white men.” Andy Towle [...]
Take it as a further sign that homosexuality is becoming a far less divisive issue, even in conservative ranks: Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, has joined the advisory council of GOProud, the gay Republican group that recently — and unfortunately — drew attention when it was alternately derided and defended from [...]
Considering that it’s the first nation to have an openly gay head of government, the fact that Iceland has legalized gay marriage shouldn’t be surprising: The Althingi parliament voted 49 to zero to change the wording of marriage legislation to include matrimony between “man and man, woman and woman,” in addition to unions between men [...]
Three quarters of Americans know someone who’s gay or lesbian, compared to two fifths back in 1992. Brian Montopoli: Seventy-seven percent of Americans now say they know someone who is gay or lesbian, a new CBS News poll finds – an increase of 35 percentage points since 1992, when a majority of Americans said they [...]
That’s the lesson some people are drawing from a new study: MONDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) — When compared to teens of the same age, adolescents raised by lesbian parents are doing just fine socially, psychologically and academically, new research finds. Click here to find out more! Not only that, they have fewer social problems, [...]
Yesterday’s “This Week” roundtable had a remarkably civil discussion of gays in the military featuring George Will, Matthew Dowd, Clarence Page, and Joan Walsh. They were all in agreement that this was a done deal, that the national culture had changed remarkably in recent years, and that the military’s own culture needed to be respectfully [...]
Congress moved two steps closer to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell late Thursday evening. First, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed its version of the repeal amendment on a largely party-line vote: Equal rights activists scored a major victory today, as the Senate Armed Services committee voted 16-12 to give the Pentagon the power to [...]
Andrew Sullivan continues to fight back against my assertions that gays in the military is a hot button issue in much of the country. He correctly pointed out recent polling shows that “78 percent of the public supports allowing openly gay people to serve in the military.” I retorted that, while that may be, the [...]
As the political battle over the repeat of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell goes down to the wire, two Republican Senators threatened last night to filibuster the military spending bill that the repeal is attached to: Armed Services Republicans threatened Wednesday to filibuster the defense authorization bill if it comes to the floor with Democrat-backed language [...]
In a surprising 11th hour development, the Joint Chiefs are insisting Congress hold its horses on allowing gays to serve openly in the U.S. military. The Hill‘s Eric Zimmerman (“Joint Chiefs, McCain oppose ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ compromise“): Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is circulating a letter from the Joint Chiefs of Staff opposing the plan [...]
