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Pelosi leads celebration of 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal
CNN ^ | 12/21/10 | Tom Cohen

Posted on 12/21/2010 6:30:30 PM PST by Baladas

Washington (CNN) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday led jubilant legislators and soldiers discharged under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in singing "God Bless America" to celebrate the upcoming repeal of the controversial law.

President Barack Obama will sign the repeal bill on Wednesday, and Pelosi did her part at the ceremony attended by hundreds of supporters of the repeal by signing the measure passed by Congress to send it to the White House.

The "don't ask, don't tell" policy enacted in 1993 banned openly gay and lesbian soldiers from military service. More than 14,000 military members have been discharged because of it.

Pelosi, a California Democrat, said the military will be made stronger by including all Americans who want to serve without making gay and lesbian members lie about who they are.

Steny Hoyer lauds DADT repeal

Repealing 'don't ask' policy a challenge RELATED TOPICS Don't Ask, Don't Tell Nancy Pelosi "Isn't this a joyful day?" she said, adding that the repeal measure will "change the law, improve the policy, make life better for many Americans, and make our country stronger."

Pelosi then asked all in attendance to sing "God Bless America." At the end, Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, one of the first openly gay House members, could be seen wiping his eyes

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; barneyfrank; dast; dontaskdonttell; homosexualagenda; nancypelosi
LOL @ Bwaney Fwank, but this lameduck travesty of a bill needs to be de-fanged by the next Congress.
1 posted on 12/21/2010 6:30:34 PM PST by Baladas
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To: Baladas

Who held up the cue cards so they knew the words to God Bless America?


2 posted on 12/21/2010 6:33:19 PM PST by Patrick1 (I'm a soldier of good fortune, I'm guarding the Yucatan.)
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To: Baladas
Pelosi leads celebration of 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal

Easy for her, she doesn't have to server with these perverts.

3 posted on 12/21/2010 6:34:43 PM PST by doc1019 (Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
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To: Patrick1

I hear ya! I’ve seen a number of instances of Democrats singing or chanting the old loyalist standards over the last few months. What a pant-load. As if they were loyalists...


4 posted on 12/21/2010 6:34:59 PM PST by DoughtyOne (All hail Obama, Lord of the Skid-mark, constantly soiling himself and our nation.)
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To: Baladas

Here’s lookin at you stretch. Will her face melt?


5 posted on 12/21/2010 6:35:42 PM PST by allmost
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To: Baladas
the repeal measure will "change the law, improve the policy, make life better for many Americans, and make our country stronger."


6 posted on 12/21/2010 6:35:45 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Baladas

Who held up the cue cards so they knew the words to God Bless America?


7 posted on 12/21/2010 6:43:21 PM PST by Patrick1 (I'm a soldier of good fortune, I'm guarding the Yucatan.)
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To: Baladas; trisham; little jeremiah

Singing “God Bless America” is a slap in the face not only to God but Americans as they have consistently opposed the homosexual agenda.


8 posted on 12/21/2010 6:50:37 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: Baladas

9 posted on 12/21/2010 6:52:07 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Baladas

California is getting LOTS and LOTS of rain...just sayin’.


10 posted on 12/21/2010 6:53:34 PM PST by madison10
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To: Baladas

Nazi Polizei and her band of America-haters sang God Bless America as their way of poking fun at Americans. Our day will come.


11 posted on 12/21/2010 6:55:00 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Yes Pelosi is San Francisco all the way...they HATE that song except when it can be used to mock America and mock God. I’m sure it is popular at those “Metropolitan Community Churches” that describes themselves as a “ministry” for faggots by faggots for the glory of faggotry.


12 posted on 12/21/2010 7:07:30 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

I’m sure very few people thought it was sincere and God knows that it wasn’t.


13 posted on 12/21/2010 7:09:53 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

The blatant wickedness of this woman will not go on indefinitely. This abomination will be rewarded with justice; I just hope that she is in San Fransiko or D.C. when the landscape is leveled.


14 posted on 12/21/2010 7:55:25 PM PST by Outlaw Woman (It has come to the point that we have to decide what to do with the bodies.)
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To: Baladas

All Hail, Queen of Sodom!


15 posted on 12/21/2010 8:01:08 PM PST by matt1234 (0bama's bunker phase: Nov. 2010 - Jan. 2013)
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To: Outlaw Woman

Blatant. Yeah that’s a perfect word to describe her.


16 posted on 12/21/2010 8:05:05 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: matt1234

Historians will mark this day as the final straw that broke the Hyper-Power’s back. The height of stupidity, where political correctness was placed before National security.


17 posted on 12/22/2010 8:34:33 AM PST by CoastWatcher
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