Posted on 03/18/2012 6:30:19 PM PDT by jazusamo
Rights fight pits Holder vs. Panetta
The Obama administration is withholding medical and other benefits from same-sex spouses of military members, but Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. says he can no longer defend the law that authorizes the practice.
Conservatives are charging that Mr. Holder is going back on Pentagon promises to adhere to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the September repeal of the ban on open gays in the military.
Military promises to enforce DOMA, which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman, induced some fence-sitting members of Congress to support the administration’s push to repeal the ban: The Pentagon would not recognize same-sex marriages, thus would not extend an array of military benefits to same-sex spouses.
However, Mr. Holder’s Justice Department stopped defending DOMA in court challenges in February 2011.
What’s more, the attorney general last month sided with gay-rights activists in a lawsuit against Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta demanding benefits for spouses of legally married gay service members.
Elaine Donnelly, who runs the Center for Military Readiness, sees the action as a calculated bait-and-switch.
“Congress voted for [a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] law that [Defense Department] officials successfully disguised with fake promises before the lame-duck vote,” Mrs. Donnelly said.
“Had there been sufficient time to challenge contradictions in their testimony, the 1993 [ban] still would be in place. But [President] Obama would have failed to deliver on his promises to LGBT activist groups. That’s what it’s all about, then and now.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“A pathetic mess and huge can of worms due to Obama/Holder pushing the homosexual agenda.”
What has been “done” regarding the homo-ization of the military during Obama’s administration can — and should — be UNDONE by the next Republican administration and Republican Congress.
Will they have the nerve and the courage to restore the military to its previous state?
I hope so. But I’m not optimistic....
“A pathetic mess and huge can of worms due to Obama/Holder pushing the homosexual agenda.”
What has been “done” regarding the homo-ization of the military during Obama’s administration can — and should — be UNDONE by the next Republican administration and Republican Congress.
Will they have the nerve and the courage to restore the military to its previous state?
I hope so. But I’m not optimistic....
Mitt Romney publicly re-states his pro-homosexual positions on military, judges, and more.
http://www.massresistance.com/docs/gen/11d/romney_issues_1216/index.html
Holder may be as much a faggot as Ubama. In any event, who could be stupid enough to trust the rats when they make a "promise"?
Should mittens be elected, God forbid, he’ll pick up where Zer0 left off, he’s no moderate, he’s a liberal.
There are a lot of people who don’t understand why I have always viewed open homosexuality in the military as not only catastrophic for the military, but our country as well.
Homosexuality in the military is a wedge. Once it is gained there, it will become law of the land. There can be no other result.
Well said, Lancey. There’s no such thing as a promise that can relied upon from a RAT.
It is one of the reasons I have been so disillusioned and disappointed to bitterness with Scott Brown. He has openly supported homosexuality in the military.
Absolutely agree, and that’s why the leftists worked so hard to repeal DADT.
Future historians will see the significance also. All the other issues are small potatoes. DADT repeal was the game changer. The left destroyed the last bastion when DADT was repealed.
The frog is afraid of being stung during the trip, but the scorpion argues that if it stung the frog, the frog would sink and the scorpion would drown.
The frog agrees and begins carrying the scorpion, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When asked why, the scorpion points out that this is its nature.
The fable is used to illustrate the position that the behaviour of some creatures is irrepressible, no matter how they are treated and no matter what the consequences.
I had a reason to think about this in the last few days, because of a first hand experience I had this past Thursday night.
I live near Boston, and last night my wife and I went into the city to go to a Jazz concert at the new wing of the Isabella Stuart Gardener Museum (The one that had all the art stolen in 1990 valued at $500 million)
Beautiful place. New performing center, four vertical levels with one row of seats all the way around, so you can lean forward and rest your elbows on the rails to look down at the performers)
The concert was a “Tribute to Lena Horne”, and since I love jazz and her music, I thought it would be a great event, they would play all the standards that she did so well, etc.
It was nothing like that. The theme was primarily a racial event about how she suffered and preservered at the hands of white America, breaking down racial and gender barriers, etc.
There was some gasbag dressed in red african brocade with some large linen thing draped over a shoulder (google image african brocade and you can see what it looked like) who started things off, and would come back on-stage at various intervals and read notes from papers in his hand while the piano played in the background. It was much what was expected regarding Lena Horne and her career, white people yelling nasty things at her on stage, being unable to stay in the hotel she performed in, marrying a white man she didn’t love to further her career.
At one point, the gasbag talked about how Lena Horne had a drug and alcohol problem, and comparing her to Whitney Houston, said that it was her family’s fault, her fan’s fault and the country’s fault for putting her on a pedestal that she had trouble staying on. The “she had no choice, society forced her into her addictions” view. My wife and I glanced at each other...yep. No personal responsibility there, no mention of any other performers who managed to NOT become addicts.
But it was partway through one of the gasbag speeches, when I heard the word below shouted: “FIRE!” and an older scraggly looking woman came out onto the stage floor to talk to Mister Gasbag.
I was bordering on alarm, but I figured she was telling the fat gasbag about some issue, we might have to leave, or whatever, so I just watched.
The woman walked up to the guy and began shaking her pointed finger in his face.
I thought, “What the hell is this?” Then she turned around and left. The gasbag said: “We live in a country with a lack of civility, where the most popular man in the world, President Barack Obama, has a sitting congressman calling him a liar, and a governer of a state wagging her finger in his face...”
It wasn’t “FIRE” I had heard, it was “LIAR”, and the whole thing was choreographed in.
I was with my wife, who would not consider it worth making a scene about, but I was steaming. It was all I could do to stay in my seat, and that, for her sake.
Throughout the whole thing there were references to Paul Robeson and Barack Obama, but when the gasbag mentioned Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt and Barack Obama in the same sentence, that almost did me in.
As I thought about it, I knew I hadn’t vetted the performance. I just assumed it would be music, Lena Horne’s music. But it wasn’t, and I could only blame myself for that.
I forgot the key rule to remember: It is in the nature of liberals to behave this way. I don't have to like it or approve of it, but if I find myself getting angry or surprised about it over and over again, it is on me.
Nobody should hold themselves responsible for things they cannot see or know. But people should accept blame for those things they CAN see and HAVE seen.
I had gone most of my life and never read “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, but in the last two years I finally listened to it.
Stunning.
For me, it was viscerally applicable. The similarity hit me in the gut. To anyone who has read history, we know it is inevitable, we all know that civilizations rise and fall.
Just not ours.
We'll be waiting.
Well, they knew what they were doing, that is certain.
Thanks for the book reference. I just downloaded it. I will read when I get some time.
Ha-Ha-Ha, and you believe him! Ha-Ha-Ha!
Thanks for your kind reply.
You showed admirable restraint by remaining in your seat. I have found myself in similar situations, so I can relate. There have been a couple of times, though, when I did leave in the middle of a show / lecture / performance with the words, “This is horse sh**.” Just a few weeks ago, in fact, a band’s guitarist went on a rant about Bush (believe it or not) and a tirade of tired, juvenile, liberal causes-du-jour. In that case, my wife and I looked at each other as we both stood to escape. She was as offended as me.
FRegards,
LH
What a maroon!
Once they are openly gay, and then married, how the heck could you then justify witholding benefits?
You then have no grounds at all. The door is open and can’t be shut.
Anyone could see this coming.
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