Fierce! DOMA is still missing from DNC civil rights page

[Bluebear]

via Americablog: It's been a day, they had time to fix it. They chose not to. DOMA is still missing from the new DNC page listing the party's top promises to our community. More here.

As an aside, the page also says that Democrats are committed to "ensuring civil unions" for LGBT couples. That's new. What exactly is the Democratic party, the White House, and the leadership in Congress doing to ensure that we get a nationwide system of civil unions for gay couples? I do believe that's a new promise. I'd love to hear what their plans on for passing such legislation.

http://gay.americablog.com/2010/09/doma-is-still-missing-from-dnc-civil.html

[UrbScotty]

1. So what if it's on a WEBSITE? We need ACTION, not words on a website! (nt)

[Bluebear]

2. Point being, this "new" website is FURTHER WATERING DOWN promises to GLBT America.

Don't expect ANY action, you'll be more calm. :(

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. You are anything but calm.

[Occulus]

12. He only wants to be able to get married.

It's no big deal.

[Name removed]

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[laconicsax]

5. I believe the civil union leg. is called the "Shut Up and Wait Your Turn Act of 2016" n/t

[Bluebear]

8. "History? We'll all be dead!" - GW Bush

[SidDithers]

6. And in other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead...

Thanks, Chevy.

Sid

[Mimosa]

7. Un-reccers have been at work

Bluebear, I rec'ed it.

From the OP link:

"Third, there's that ending DADT in a "sensible way" language again. What the hell does that mean? You either end it or you don't. And were the Democrats ever thinking of ending it in a non-sensible way? It sounds like a weasel word, and it's one the White House got caught using a year ago. Why do the party leaders keep using this language that implies something short of an outright and full repeal of DADT?"

[Swamp Rat]

9. k&r

[Duncan Grant]

10. Oh, flibbertigibbet!

"And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant in television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone."
-- Harvey Milk, 1977

They still don't get it. Not really.

[Smashcut]

11. But...the new LOGO!!!

K/R