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Gay & Lesbian Equality Must Be Won In The Courts

Equality For Breakfast

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) has been ruled unconstitutional by the United States legal system. If the ruling is upheld then all discriminatory laws written to persecute Gay and Lesbian Americans are suspect and would soon be overturned.

A great windfall for Gays and Lesbians but politically damaging to both the Democratic and Republican parties.

The Democratic Party looses a dedicated voting demographic representing nearly 10% of the population that contributes heavily to local and national campaigns. Gay and Lesbian Americans have historically supported Democratic Party candidates who claim to back equality.

The Republican Party looses an effective wedge issue that guarantees christian conservative turnout and energizes the “values” voter. The “traditional” marriage movement has done more to drive the christian conservative base than any discussion of big government or fiscal responsibility.

As far as the political parties are concerned a court decision supporting Gay and Lesbian equality is the worst possible outcome. Both parties have a vested interest in maintaining this valued wedge and will do anything they can to stop the Supreme Court from ruling on this issue. This is the reason for the Obama Administration’s aggressive defense of the DADT policy…a policy the President claims to abhor.

The Supreme Court’s order included no explanation, so it’s sensible to look for that in the Justice Department filing that urged the court to rule as it did. Repeatedly, it mentioned repeal of the law by Congress and the process under way in the executive branch laying the groundwork for that. It said the wrong way to overturn the law is by “judicial invalidation” and the right way is by “repeal of an act of Congress by Congress itself.”

via A Defeat for Checks and Balances – NYTimes.com.

But as far as the Gay and Lesbian community is concerned a Supreme Court ruling upholding the unconstitutionality of DADT is the quickest, easiest and cheapest path to full equality.

Here is how America’s checks and balance system works. If a law passed by Congress is unconstitutional the Court system strikes down the law. This method has worked well for over 200 years.

Here is how it applies to DADT. If the Court ruling against DADT is upheld as unconstitutional by the 9th District then U.S. Supreme Court the law is struck down never to return. Additionally it would establish a precedence that government cannot discriminate against Gay and Lesbian Americans.

The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) would quickly be held discriminatory and unconstitutional as would any state amendments defining “traditional” marriage as the norm. It would follow that employment discrimination against Gays and Lesbians would also be unacceptable.

Politically, a valued wedge issue disappears and Gay and Lesbian Americans are free to support the party of their choice.

On the other hand if DADT is repealed by an act of Congress it only effects DADT and can be reinstated by another act of Congress thus maintaining the wedge.

If, and this is a big if, the Senate votes to repeal DADT you will immediately see the Democratic Party demanding Gay and Lesbian support or else the Republicans will reinstate the policy. The Republicans Party will demand christian voters help take the Senate so they can push a new anti-Gay military policy and save America from immorality.

In other words politics continue as usual with Gay and Lesbian rights held hostage.

BREAKING NEWS: Obama Administration Blocks Attempt To Repeal DADT Ban In Supreme Court

Obama Pushes Discrimination Against Gay Soldiers

Today White House convinces Supreme Court to keep persecuting Gay and Lesbian soldiers while Obama Justice Department fights to maintain unconstitutional and discriminatory Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

The Supreme Court is refusing to block enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military while a federal appeals court considers the issue.

The court on Friday denied a request from the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights group, to step into the ongoing federal court review of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The Obama administration urged the high court not to get involved at this point.

Last month, a federal judge ruled that the policy violates the civil rights of gay Americans and she issued an injunction barring the Pentagon from applying it. But the San Francisco-based appeals court said the policy could remain in effect while it considers the administration’s appeal.

via BREAKING NEWS: High court rejects plea to block gay military ban | plea, court, rejects – Breaking News – Colorado Springs Gazette, CO.

The Gay and Lesbian community would be hard pressed to find a bigger opponent to our equality than President Obama and the current Democratic Party.

Soldiers OK With Gay – Does Congress Care?

A leaked Pentagon study shows the overwhelming majority of service members and their families are fine with Gay and Lesbian soldiers serving openly. Will the Senate accept the outcome of the military survey or continue their lucrative political discrimination against Gay and Lesbian soldiers.

A Pentagon study group has concluded that the military can lift the ban on gays serving openly in uniform with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts, according to two people familiar with a draft of the report, which is due to President Obama on Dec. 1.

More than 70 percent of respondents to a survey sent to active-duty and reserve troops over the summer said the effect of repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy would be positive, mixed or nonexistent, said two sources familiar with the document. The survey results led the report’s authors to conclude that objections to openly gay colleagues would drop once troops were able to live and serve alongside them.

via Sources: Pentagon group finds there is minimal risk to lifting gay ban during war.

Both political parties have collected billions in campaign contributions over the years exploiting Gay and Lesbian equality. Neither the Democratic nor Republican party is willing to give up this wedge issue which energizes the base and pulls in cash. Perhaps this is why President Obama is fighting so hard against the Log Cabin Republicans court victory which ruled Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell unconstitutional.

Our civil rights will continue to be held hostage as long as Gay and Lesbian Americans allow political parties to extort equality for cash.

Mandatory Health Insurance Threatens Personal Freedoms

Quality Health Care Is A Universal Right

In March 2010 President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) passed by the Democratic controlled congress. The “sweeping healthcare reform” in reality is nothing but a bailout of the health insurance industry and does little for American citizens. The PPACA forces hard working Gay and Lesbian Americans to purchase into a broken private health insurance system or face imprisonment.

The IRS enforces participation. If an American worker refuses to purchase a private policy the IRS fines you. If you choose not to pay the IRS fine you will go to jail.

Never before in the history of the United States has the federal government forced American citizens to purchase a private industry product or face jail. The PPACA represents the single greatest threat to American personal freedoms our country has ever faced.

If PPACA is allowed to stand any multinational corporation could buy enough votes in congress to mandate every American purchase their product. Your right to freely associate is eliminated as you are forced to support industries against your will.

Here is an example. Let’s say Microsoft wanted to increase sales but do to the economic slump no one was upgrading their software. Bill Gates buys enough congressmen and senators to pass a piece of legislation that forces every PC owner to upgrade their operating system every year. Any PC owner connected to the internet without the proper operating system would face fines and imprisonment.

Of course it would be rolled out as a necessary step in combating cyber terrorism but the end result is the same. It removes competition and product innovation. Why spend billions enhancing a product when you can spend a few million bribing congress members and force everyone to purchase your junk through government mandates.

By the way that is exactly what happened in the “health care reform” fiasco. Rather than create a new and innovative system to providing health care to all Americans, members of congress sold their votes to the health insurance lobby and the end result is mandatory participation in our broken private health insurance system. Instead of retooling their business model to address the economic realities facing America today the health insurance industry simply bought enough congressmen to mandate every citizen buy their outdated and overpriced products.

This is the new model for any multinational corporation doing business in the United States. Save the cost of research and advertising by simply having the government force Americans to buy your product.

Mercifully the wheels of justice are turning for the American people. United States District Judge Roger Vinson is allowing a lawsuit brought by several states claiming the PPACA is unconstitutional. The Federal government does not have the constitutional authority to force all Americans to purchase products from a private industry.

Vinson dismissed four of six claims the states brought against the healthcare law but said he saw grounds to proceed on two counts, including one relating to the way critics say it would force huge new spending by state governments.

On the issue of the so-called “individual mandate,” the law’s provision that all Americans obtain healthcare insurance, Vinson said the plaintiffs had “most definitely stated a plausible claim” for their objections.

“The power that the individual mandate seeks to harness is simply without prior precedent,” he said.

via Judge lets states’ healthcare suit go forward | Raw Story.

Candidates from both parties are campaigning against the wildly unpopular “health care reform” with the Republicans promising to repeal the more egregious pieces of the legislation. Make no mistake, neither party will repeal the mandatory health insurance provisions in this bill they will simply relax the restrictions placed on the insurance industry. Rates will skyrocket as coverage declines…and you will still be forced to purchase their product.

The federal government starts enforcing the individual mandates in 2014.

Over the next 4 years freedom loving Americans will face the choice of abandoning the United States for a less fascist nation or imprisonment for not supporting corporate profits. Change you can believe in!

Health insurance companies provide no health care…health insurance companies profit by DENYING health care. Placing health insurance company profits above patient care kills Americans!

A single payer system that removes profits from denying care is the only reform acceptable to the American public.

Obama Refuses To Challenge Christian Court Victory – Lets Decision Stand

Obama Refuses To Challenge Christian Group

The Obama Administration refused to challenge a U.S. Court of Appeals decision allowing christians to terrorize visitors in National Parks the day after claiming it was the Attorney Generals duty to appeal all decisions. Of course when President Obama claimed that all decisions must be appealed he was referring to cases involving Gay and Lesbian Americans not christians.

The Obama Administration and Department of Justice are clearly using a double standard when it comes to judicial review. Gay and Lesbian Americans are held to higher scrutiny while christian groups receive favorable treatment.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Aug. 6 that the Park Service’s regulation forcing individuals or small groups to obtain a permit for First Amendment-protected activities was unconstitutional. But the court upheld the agency’s policy of setting aside designated park areas for larger demonstrations and the sale of printed material after applicants obtained a permit.

The Justice Department declined to appeal the ruling.

The case was brought by Michael Boardley, who was distributing religious materials at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota in 2007 before a park ranger stopped him because he lacked a permit. His attempts to obtain a permit failed, and he later sued.

“It was a bureaucratic nightmare,” said Nate Kellum, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, a nonprofit Christian legal defense group. “He was completely stymied from sharing his Christian views with anybody else.”

The case “establishes that national parks are no different than any other public park,” Kellum said. “There’s no distinction now between Mount Rushmore and the city park down the street.”

via Restrictions eased for groups gathering at national parks.

President Obama claims to support equality for Gays and Lesbians yet is aggressively challenging the court cases where DOMA and the military’s DADT policy were ruled unconstitutional. The Administration could have allowed those rulings to stand like the christian National Parks case but President Obama apparently is as homophobic as the christian terrorists he is supporting.

Fortunately the same conservatives that argued for unrestrained proselytizing by the christian terror groups in National Parks also won the constitutional right for all Americans to carry guns and defend themselves in those National Parks.

Gay and Lesbian Americans are threatened daily by the same christian terrorist organization receiving favors from the Obama Administration. Our community should not expect fair treatment from the United States Justice Department. Our safety is in our hands.

Remember Armed Gays Don’t Get Bashed!

Papers Please – Evangelical Christians Demand Darkies Leave Arizona

Continuing their message of hope and deliverance to white christian America the Knights Party, the political arm of the KKK, helped draft the legislation signed by Arizona’s evangelical christian governor Jan Brewer.

Brewer, an avid supporter of a whites only christian America, signed the legislation that allows police to demand proof of citizenship from any dark skinned person in the state of Arizona.

Here is item eight from the Knights Party political platform which the Arizona legislation is based upon.

America is being over run by illegal immigrants mostly from nonwhite countries who do not share the Christian European values of our nation’s founders. Immigration should remain open to all White Christians throughout the world. There is not one single country that does not persecute it’s White Christian citizens such as in South Africa where the violent crime against Whites is at an all time high. The entire reasoning behind the forming of America was to allow one place in the world where White Christians could live together in harmony without any outside interference from those of other religions or races.

Governor Brewers christian klan authored legislation will of course be ruled unconstitutional but how much terror will be inflicted on dark skinned Americans visiting Arizona while the legal system works?

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law the nation’s toughest legislation against illegal immigration Friday, a sweeping measure that supporters said would take handcuffs off police but which President Obama said could violate people’s civil rights.

The bill, sent to the Republican governor by the GOP-led Legislature, would make it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally. It would also require local police officers to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.

Brewer, who faces a tough election battle and growing anger in the state over illegal immigrants, said the law “protects every Arizona citizen,” and said the state must act because the federal government has failed.

“We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act,” Brewer said after signing the law. “But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation.”

The bill takes effect 90 days after the current legislative session ends in the next several weeks.

Mr. Obama said in Washington that he’s instructed the Justice Department to examine the Arizona bill to see if it’s legal, and said the federal government must enact immigration reform at the national level – or leave the door open to “irresponsibility by others.”

“That includes, for example, the recent efforts in Arizona, which threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe,” Mr. Obama said.

Brewer spoke about the national attention the bill attracted after she signed it into law.

“We must acknowledge the truth: people across America are watching Arizona,” Brewer said. “Some of those people from outside our state are waiting to see us fail … We cannot give them that chance. We must use this new tool wisely. We must react calmly.”

via Divisive Ariz. Immigration Bill Signed Into Law – CBS News.

If you are planning a visit to Phoenix or any city in Arizona this summer be warned. Dark skinned Americans must carry proof of citizens ship or face criminal charges and torture.

Bolivian President Claims Gayness Caused By Eating Chicken!

Hmmm, what about us beef eating gays?

Male pattern baldness and the mysteries of human sexuality are no puzzles for the president of Bolivia, who has declared they are caused by eating chicken.

Evo Morales has claimed that both homosexuality and baldness can be caused by the humble chicken.

Speaking at an environmental conference on Tuesday, Morales said chicken producers injected fowl with female hormones and insisted that “when men eat those chickens they experience deviances in being men”.

The Bolivian president since 2005 added that eating chicken could make men go bald.

Morales’s theories do not appear to have been immediately accepted by the scientific community, to put it mildly, and have been criticised by Spain’s National Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals, which sent a letter of protest to the Bolivian embassy in Madrid describing the president’s remarks as homophobic.

The president of the Argentina Homosexual Community campaigning organisation, Cesar Cigliutti, said: “It’s an absurdity to think that eating hormone-containing chicken can change the sexual orientation of a person.

“By following that reasoning, if we put male hormones in a chicken and we make a homosexual eat it he will transform into a heterosexual.”

The dubious potential effects of hormone-infused chicken aside, Morales’s warning may be out of date anyway as chicken producers in Europe, the US and many other countries abandoned the use of hormones in poultry several decades ago.

via Gay and bald? Evo Morales thinks you ate too much chicken | News | guardian.co.uk.

Forget about the scientific evidence that shows Gays and Lesbians are born with their sexual orientation. I am so glad that President Morales has cleared this up for us.

Obama Lied To American Soldiers – Democratic Party Screws Gays & Lesbians Again

President Barack Obama lied to the American Gay and Lesbian community when he swore in his State of the Union address to overturn the odious Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy which forces Gay and Lesbian soldiers to lie about their sexual orientation. The Obama administration is actually working against inclusion of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal in the Defense Authorization bill. Inclusion in the military spending bill is the only way the repeal can pass in the Senate even though the Democrats have a 59 to 41 vote majority. If the repeal does not pass this year it will never pass.

The Democratic Party is simply using the American Gay and Lesbian community as a cash machine pulling billions out of our pockets and returning nothing. This must stop. The Democratic Party controls both houses of Congress and the Presidency! Why will they not fulfill the campaign promises made to our community in 2008?

The Democratic Party cannot win without the support of Gay and Lesbian Americans. We represent 10% of the population, that is a possible 30 million voters. The Democratic Party must pass ENDA and repeal DADT this year or the Gay and Lesbian community starts endorsing third party candidates who will actually support full equality for our population.

There is no excuse for not passing ENDA and repealing DADT in 2009!

Joe and I were just informed that the White House congressional liaison office is telling US House members not to include the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” in the Defense Authorization bill, and not to have a vote on DADT on the House floor, this year. This would be at odds with the promise the President made in the State of the Union to repeal DADT this year, but it would be consistent with all other signs coming from the White House.

As you recall, Congressman Barney Frank, who is openly gay, recently said that he is “frustrated” and “disappointed” with the Obama administration’s efforts (or lack thereof) to repeal DADT. Frank went on to directly criticize the lack of leadership from President Obama on this issue:

“His not being for it will give people an excuse to not vote for it. Thing is – we’ve done hate crimes. We do ENDA. It’s a big agenda all at once. At this point – the President’s refusal to call for repeal this year is a problem.”

President Obama is now actually hurting the effort to get DADT repealed. He is costing us votes. And remember, we are in serious danger of losing the House to the Republicans this November. If that happens, we won’t see DADT repealed, ENDA, DOMA, or any other part of our civil rights agenda move forward for years to come. Last time it took 14 years to win the Congress back from the GOP, and even then, we had to wait for a Democratic president before we could move forward – and even then, it isn’t moving forward.

Our number one gay rights lobby, the Human Rights Campaign, told us that DADT would be repealed this year. You heard it directly from the mouth of HRC’s President Joe Solmonese. Is HRC even talking to the White House? It’s hard to believe that we were able to find out that the White House is undercutting DADT on the Hill, that Barney Frank knows it, but HRC doesn’t. So what exactly is HRC doing about it? We don’t need HRC going through the motions, holding ineffective “lobby days.” We need HRC to tell the White House and the Hill to pass the damn repeal this year. From what we hear, that isn’t happening.

via AMERICAblog Gay: White House congressional liaison is telling US House not to vote on DADT this year.

Where the hell is the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Joe Solmonese? We need to end this ridiculous excuse for a lobbying group and let Joe Solmonese focus on his modeling career. HRC has 750,000 members an annual budget of more than $30 million.

Stop sending these worthless turds at HRC money!

Join an organization that does something like Bash Back and start sending those checks to Get Equal they actually do work to secure our equality.

Call your members of Congress today and demand they repeal DADT and passage of ENDA. Let them know that we will no longer tolerate their inaction and if they cannot support full equality for Gays and Lesbians then Gays and Lesbians will not support them!

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver Understands Gay Marriage A Civil Rights Issue

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver recognizes that Gays and Lesbians fighting for equality is a civil rights issue, not minority special rights. Like inter-racial couples in the forties same-sex couples today seek the right to marry a partner of their choosing free from unconstitutional and bigoted religious restrictions.

Gov. Chet Culver today made his strongest public statements to date about gay marriage, telling reporters that discrimination has no place in Iowa’s constitution.

“We stood firm for the civil rights of every Iowan by saying loudly and clearly that any and all efforts to add discriminatory amendments to our state constitution have no place in our state constitution,” Culver said of the legislature’s resistance to multiple attempts to end equal marriage right for same-sex couples.

Culver has previously said that he personally believes marriage should be between one man and one woman. He still holds that belief, he said today. However, his personal views should not infringe upon the civil rights of others, he added.

“I think the overwhelming majority of Iowans do not want to amend our constitution in such a way that’s discriminatory. That’s the bottom line,” Culver said. “Iowans want to move forward and the Supreme Court has spoken loudly and clearly. I think it’s time to move on.”

Iowans were almost evenly divided about whether they would vote for or against a constitutional amendment to end marriage for same-sex couples, according to the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll taken in September. Forty-one percent say they would vote for a ban, and 40 percent say they would vote to continue gay marriage. The rest either would not vote or say they are not sure.

The overwhelming majority of Iowans – 92 percent – said gay marriage has brought no real change to their lives. Sixty-three percent said candidates’ stands on other issues will be more important in making their decisions in the 2010 elections.

via Culver: Gay marriage discrimination has no place in Iowa’s constitution | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs.

America as a whole is weakened when discrimination is institutionalized into a state constitution. Bigotry and hate are not American values.

Another General Supports Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

General Paul Eaton supports repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell saying that repeal is a civil rights issue.

Joining a long list of military leaders and commanders calling for the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, retired Major Gen. Paul Eaton — commander of operations to train Iraqi troops between 2003 and 2004 and currently a Senior Adviser to the National Security Network– told Mic Check radio last week that he too believed that it was time to end the policy. “Discrimination based on sexual orientation is inappropriate in our society,” Eaton said. “It is inappropriate to ask somebody to lie if he wants to keep his job as a solider, air man, seaman or marine.”

“The issue of sexuality is so complex, it’s not binary. And the older I get the more I learn about it and we’ve gone to a considerable level of openness in our society to discussing this,” he added, noting that attitudes towards sexuality have changed since the policy was first enacted. “There is a considerable amount of growth we’ve seen and when it comes down to the issue of gays serving in the military, the real issue is discipline”:

EATON: I expect people to serve in the military where sexuality is not a topic of discussion. It is not a topic of recognition. Simply, you don’t display affection….It’s not an issue. It’ just a discipline issue.

Eaton acknowledged that now is the time to repeal the ban, but he didn’t call on the military to expedite its year-long review of the policy. “I believe that now is the time to repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and as far as the timeline for implementing that decision, I defer to the United States Armed Forces to figure that out,” he said. “From the perspective of the Pentagon review, it gets really complicated when you get into the bureaucracy of implementation”:

EATON: There is the issue of preparing the force and preparing the services for the repeal so that we don’t run into unpleasant second-order effect events….Just like integration of women creates some challenges, and enduring challenges, discipline issues, so it will be that we’re going to have to be careful in our implementation of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

Eaton also praised the leaders of the Pentagon review, General Carter Ham and Jeh Johnson and expressed confidence in that process.

via Wonk Room » General Paul Eaton Comes Out For Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

Contact your members of Congress and demand they repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.