Backers Say Gay Rights Bills Will Win in House

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Source: Roll Call

By Steven T. Dennis and Tory Newmyer
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2010, 12 a.m.

Backers of gay rights bills in the House are pressing ahead despite grumbling from moderate Democrats, an uncertain future in the Senate and some friendly fire from the Obama administration.

A repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law banning openly gay people from serving in the military and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act could be on the floor this month, according to senior Democratic aides and lawmakers.

The gay rights bills are the only controversial social items on a fairly milquetoast House agenda, with a “campaign mode” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) having already punted immigration reform to the Senate.

However, it’s unclear whether the votes are still there to repeal DADT after Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote to Congress on April 30 urging a delay until after a departmental review, according to a leadership aide.

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Some cautiously encouraging statements about the enactment of EDNA and repeal of DADT.

[applegrove]

1. Good news.

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2. The Family Research Council should support this - in a nod to one of their founding members

I mean, if you can't support one of the people who got your very organization going, who CAN you support?!!

[Divine Discontent]

3. AMEN! even if he won't stand up for his own rights, we'll do it for him!

too bad that he actually FIGHTS against his own rights... lololol... what these self-haters won't do to hide their sexuality.

I mean wow, he hires a pretty young man to rub him down & gets 'excited' down there, but won't go further according to the young man. Sounds like he's 'protecting' his masculinity by just having a man touch him. Talk about mental issues, poor bastard.

I'm so glad the prostitute, Jo Vanni, has helped take that Family Research doofus down, along with the small paper down there in Miami.

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6. agreed

the bigger they are, the harder they are when they fall (or something like that)

[Divine Discontent]

4. hopefully we can be saying Thank You congressional dems, soon.

[dencol]

5. Controversial?

How pathetic that gay rights are controversial in this day and age.

[Divine Discontent]

7. pretty embarrassing. it's like the last bit of bigotry that they have that is legislated in some

states as being an affront to marriage, and in FL being unacceptable in the adoption of children.


the only thing sick and perverse is these archaic judgments.

[msongs]

8. if it was discrimination against african americans obama would be all over it nt

[awoke_in_2003]

9. K&R...

too bad the Senate will probably fuck this up.

[Unvanguard]

10. Didn't they say this LAST month?

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