About Face!

If DADT is a bus, gays are still "invited" to sit in the back.

About Face!
by sldn.org

In the topsy-turvy world of current politics, Obama does an about face on Don't Ask Don't Tell (supposedly a strategic move with regard to the SCOTUS case, but these days, who can tell?) in the nick of time: Just when a recent poll of conservative church goers shows them doing their own about face.

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Is this the ultimate political polemic or what? When one pendulum swings, do they both have to?

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KEYWORDS FOR THIS POST

Don't Ask Don't Tell, DADT, Obama, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, gay, homophobia

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