[Updated at 3:22 p.m.] The White House is "disappointed" at the Senate vote blocking the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, "but we'll keep trying," spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.
[Posted at 3:04 p.m.] A defense bill that includes the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as Republicans closed ranks to keep the bill from coming up for debate.
The bill stalled on a 56-43 vote, four short of the 60 votes needed to break a Republican-led filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, joined the opposition as a tactical move, allowing him to bring it up later.
Republicans stood united against the measure even though some GOP senators favor lifting the Pentagon's requirement that gays and lesbians keep their sexuality a secret. Republican opponents complained that Democratic leaders are limiting the debate and could have refused to allow GOP amendments to the broader National Defense Authorization Act, which included the "don't ask, don't tell" repeal provision.
GOP senators also disliked Reid's plan to add an immigration-related provision to the defense bill. Reid wants to tack on a measure that would provide a path to citizenship for students and soldiers who are children of illegal immigrants.
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If the White House is so "disappointed", then where is the outrage? Where is the reaction? Gays are targeted on all sides, and the White House, in a position of power, does nothing! There is nobody left for gay people in this country!
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this is why i hate politics. the democrats vote against the repeal, just because they want to get ahead. what ever happened to listening to what people want and the government following through?
also, it's only because of religion that we have so many stereotypes and hate crimes. aren't they the ones that are supposed to be so accepting of all people?
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Classless post. I support almost every fiscal republican policy and yet can never support them with my vote because of stuff like this. I'm a straight man and yet I feel that everyone regardless of background should be disgusted by this. Every American should have the right to be happy without worrying about religious bigots quoting ancient verses from a made up book
Its not about being gay its about the fine print ... tacking on other smaller ammendments that are not related is sickening its no dif. than adding on pork to a bill each bill should stand on its own ... Dems. didn't ask the military how or what they think . These are people pushing issues because ... they are only looking for votes. dems are attempting to turtle everything for a vote. Question was clinton a sodimite when he had oral relations with "that young woman " in the oval office... he was not fit to be Chief ... and neither is OBAMA... History always gives up the real truth ... right now they are just lies....
Good for you. At least you respect the hundred thousand gays who risk their lives for a country that has so many that despise them.
While every last orig nato country except Islamic turkey lets gays serve openly.
HOpe you'll also find it in your heart to insure that gays get the legal benefits of civil marriage (totally separare from religious rites), regardless of the rantings of the churches that mostly are the inheritors of the culture of slavery, the KKK, and segregation. Now represented in DC by the republicans.
Good for you. Our religious leader made a point "you write a book, and then in the beginning you write "IN the beginning....."
And it all becomes seen as the truth.
BTW, of course you remember 9/11 and 3000 people murdered. We have a 9/11 every year of gay kids who commit suicide because they are bullied and treated liake pariahs in their schools.
Of the 6 gays I know well enough to discuss their youth, 5 were suidical, one a "trigger squeeze away....." Because he was so terrified of telling his catholic father.
But things change – I attended his wedding in DC in 2004. Religious, not civil. CAtholic ceremony in an episcopal church, not sure if the priest was cath or ?Epis. And this is a guy who would never in any situation want to hurt anyone else.
And the sixth case- His father hardly will talke to him. the father, a small town GA cop, "knows two wors" The n-word, and the 3 letter F word.
Who after his son came out – another guy who never wants to hurt anyone, the fathers married brother admitted he i gay. You can imaagine the lack of conersation they have
DADT should be called the destroy ignorance and defend America act.