Members Lucky Posted September 23, 2010 Members Posted September 23, 2010 towleroad.com introduces us to the photography of Jeff Sheng, and his exhibit on Don't Ask, Don't Tell, on display at the Kaycee Olsen Gallery in Los Angeles until October 23d. A slide show of the very neat photos is here: http://www.jeffsheng.com/ And, if you want to watch discharge gay soldier wipe the floor with yet another anti-gay black minister, watch here: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/09/watch-dan-choi-wipes-the-floor-with-harry-jackson-on-dadt.html Quote
TotallyOz Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 Bill Clinton: I Regret DADT Former president Bill Clinton told CBS News anchor Katie Couric that he regrets the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy created in 1993 under his administration but that Colin Powell, his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, misrepresented how the policy would work. President Clinton spoke with Couric hours after an attempt to repeal the policy in the Senate failed to overcome a Republican filibuster. "Do you ever regret it as a policy?" asked Couric. "Oh, yeah," Clinton responded. "But keep in mind, I didn’t choose this policy." The president said he resorted to “don’t ask, don’t tell” when it became apparent that both houses of Congress would enact an absolute ban on gay people serving in the military unless he did something else. He also said that Powell misrepresented how the policy would work. "'Don't ask, don't tell' was only adopted when both Houses of Congress had voted by a huge veto-proof margin to legislate the absolute ban on gays in the military if I didn't do something else," said Clinton. "So there's been a lot of rewriting history, saying 'Bill Clinton just gave in to that.' That's just factually false. I didn't do anything until the votes were counted. Now, when Colin Powell sold me on 'don't pass, don't tell,' here's what he said it would be. Gay service members would never get in trouble for going to gay bars, marching in gay rights parades, as long as they weren't in uniform. That was what they were promised. That's a very different 'don't ask, don't tell' than we got." http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/09/22/Bill_Clinton_I_Regret_DADT/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AdvocatecomDailyNews+%28Advocate.com+Daily+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Quote
TotallyOz Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 Pelosi: DADT "will be gone by the end of the year" http://metroweekly.com/poliglot/2010/09/pelosi-dadt-will-be-gone.html Quote
