Don't Ask...
...President Obama to actually do anything to support gay rights. Just know that he supports it. Um...because he says he does.

Turns out it's conservative lawyer Ted Olson, together with his co-counsel David Boies, truly standing up for gay rights, challenging anti-gay marriage laws.

Richard Socarides writes in the WSJ about the president's all talk, no action support for gay rights:

First and most obviously, Mr. Obama has not made good on his campaign promise to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, allowing the military to continue stalling. Despite his earlier assertion that leadership was the only thing required to abolish this long-discredited policy, the administration's efforts have been lackluster.

...The Obama administration's stance on gay marriage is especially troubling.

In California, even Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has refused to defend the constitutionality of Proposition 8, that state's antigay marriage law. Not so for the Obama administration on the federal version, the Defense of Marriage Act.

Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice not only have chosen to aggressively defend the constitutionality of that law, which bars recognition of same-sex marriages, but Justice Department lawyers actually cite it affirmatively to deny federal employee benefits like health insurance to same-sex couples. Where is the Civil Rights Division, which Mr. Holder has called the "crown jewel" of his department?

...When Mr. Olson's case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court in a year or more from now, will Mr. Obama be one of the few left on the wrong side of history? What a bitter irony that would be.

It won't be a surprise for me or anybody else who recognized him as the ineffective politician he showed himself to be in the Senata. Sorry...were you under the impression he was Jesus?

Fiddlesticks.

Whatever, OK? I've got my tax cuts, Guantanamo has been closed, we're out of Iraq and Afghanistan, our economy is on solid footing, and the light bulb thing is happening.

So there's that.

Crid [CridComment at gmail] at June 25, 2010 12:54 AM

I'm going to call him an hour from now. We regularly go WOW raiding about this time of the morning -- though when asked we refer to it as a foreign policy simulation. From what it sounds like though, he's got much better nachos than I.

jerry at June 25, 2010 1:59 AM

Yes yes, the people that are surprised Obama hasn't fulfilled the promises he made to the to get them to vote for him are not the sharpest tools in the collective shed.

momof4 at June 25, 2010 5:18 AM

Amy Alkon

https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2010/06/dont-ask.html#comment-1726480">comment from jerry

Call who, Jerry?

Amy Alkon at June 25, 2010 6:01 AM

He plays a lot of golf. There must not be much happening in the world, or he's a Democrat. Otherwise, the media would be on it.

MarkD at June 25, 2010 6:25 AM

"I've got my tax cuts, Guantanamo has been closed, we're out of Iraq and Afghanistan..."

The ocean levels are falling (that's supposed to be good, isn't it?), a young polar bear couple has asked to rent our basement as a nursery, and every European is singing as one, "We loooooove yooooooo America!"

Fiddlesticks, indeed!

old rpm daddy at June 25, 2010 6:38 AM

Dammit, Crid, I slipped and fell in your dripping sarcasm. Good thing I'm not a slip and fall lawyer or you'd be in trouble...

I R A Darth Aggie at June 25, 2010 7:55 AM

I was sort of referring to the 3am phone call silliness of the campaign.

jerry at June 25, 2010 8:04 AM

Amy, the link to your friend's survey on homosexuality isn't working (for me, anyway).

Matt at June 25, 2010 9:33 AM

Amy Alkon

https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2010/06/dont-ask.html#comment-1726571">comment from Matt

Odd. Here it is: http://people.exeter.ac.uk/ln202/richardsquestion.html

Might have been a temporary problem.

Thanks, everybody, who's taken it. 40 people last I heard from Lesley this morning (she e-mailed me).

Amy Alkon at June 25, 2010 9:48 AM

When you said 15 minutes I figured it'd be at least 2 or 3 times longer than that

lujlp at June 25, 2010 11:25 AM

It was super quick! I FB'd it.

momof4 at June 25, 2010 3:19 PM

Amy Alkon

https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2010/06/dont-ask.html#comment-1726657">comment from momof4

Thank you so much, momof4.

PS Lesley is English -- I think she bends over backward to let you know there will be time spent.

Amy Alkon at June 25, 2010 3:25 PM

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