Guest column by Irene Monroe: An executive order would repeal "Don't ask, don't tell"
by: Pam Spaulding
Fri Sep 24, 2010 at 07:00:00 AM EDT
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By Rev. Irene Monroe
This week Lady Gaga joined Maine's rally to send a message to the state's two moderate Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, asking them to repeal "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), a critical vote in Congress.
But to no one's surprise on Tuesday, Senate Republicans quashed it. Democrats needed only 60 votes to overcome a filibuster; the vote, however, was 56 to 43.
The question our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) servicemembers should be asking is whether the vote was a sincere act on the Democrats' part to repeal DADT.
Or was it merely pressure? Posturing? Or both?