Gay advocates assail Obama’s Justice Department

[FreeState]

Very long article, well worth reading the whole thing!

http://www.dcagenda.com/2010/03/31/gay-advocates-assail-obama’s-justice-department/

Experts on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” are lambasting the Justice Department, claiming the administration misrepresented their views in a legal brief aimed at thwarting a court challenge to the ban on open service.

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“The way they portrayed me is preposterous and I’m not sure that any person in good faith hearing what I had to say could conclude what the (Department of Justice) concluded in their (request for) summary judgment,” he said. “I specifically said having a concern about privacy is not irrational, but using that privacy concern as an argument for the need to ban gays is irrational.”

Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center, similarly claimed the Justice Department misrepresented what he said in depositions about privacy arguments, and even went so far as to say the Obama administration lawyers weren’t being truthful.

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In a request for summary judgment released earlier this week, the Justice Department names Frank and Belkin as among the experts on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” who gave depositions in the case of Log Cabin v. United States. The lawsuit seeks to overturn the ban on the basis that it infringes upon the First Amendment rights of LGBT service members.

[mitchtv]

1. I'm stunned,

I tells ya, shocked, Lying? Tell me it's not true

[Toasterlad]

2. Truly! Obama's DoJ Working Against Gay Equality? Unheard Of!

[joeybee12]

3. Yeah, it is unheard of...

...for about five minutes one day I didn't hear of it...they must have been working against women's health or the environment at that time before they could get back to working against us yet again.