Recent Developments on Gay Rights

David Streeter — February 17, 2010 – 2:14 pm | Civil Rights | Domestic Policy | Military Comments (0) Add a comment

The Daily Kos and The Daily Dish have some interesting posts relating to gay rights issues.

 

First, Daily Kos reported that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen said in an interview that he has met little resistance from American service members about overturning ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). Reportedly Mullen said:

[Service members] already served with gays and lesbians, they accepted that some kind of change was imminent, and, they said, the nation was too engulfed in two wars for a prolonged debate about it.

Mullen’s comments come almost at the same time as JTA reports that a myriad of Jewish groups will adopt a measure this week in support of overturning DADT.

 

Secondly, Andrew Sullivan noted in his Daily Dish blog for The Atlantic:

I just learned a pretty staggering fact. If the Tories win the next election in Britain by just a one vote majority, there will likely be 15 openly gay Conservative MPs in the next Parliament. Last night I met Nick Herbert, an openly gay and married MP who will likely take over the environment portfolio in Cameron’s cabinet if he is elected. Can you imagine a married gay couple in any cabinet in the US, Democrat or Republican? For a little icing on the cake, they, along with heterosexual couples, will now be allowed to get married in the august rooms of the Houses of Parliament.

And:

Remind me why I moved to the land of the free? To lose freedoms? To watch conservatism calcify into anti-gay bigotry as one of its binding principles? To see a newly elected and allegedly moderate governor of Virginia actually rescind previous protections for gay people employed by state government - so that the gay people who work for their own government must live in constant fear of being fired solely for being gay?

 

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