Judge orders military to stop discharging gays

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Kasz216 said:

Rath said:

damkira said:

The Obama administration, although most of the people in it are for ending dont ask dont tell, might repeal this ruling. Obama's said he would like to see a legislative end to DADT but.. I don't think the Democrats would do anything to upset one of their key constituencies so close to an election.

You don't think that appealing this ruling would annoy democrats?

It doesn't matter.  He's legally bound to appeal it.  As President of the United States it's his job and the Justice Departments Job to argue that all of their laws are in fact legal.

He'd be in a worse spot if he didn't appeal it.

The Justice Department would be accused of political bias... (which our justice department is already in a HUGE row about doing just that when it comes to the enforcement of hate crimes laws.)

Basically he'd get the blame for politicizing the Justice Department and basically the entire legal system.

This all stems from his general cowardess at approaching the issue in the first place... and in general gay rights, after a bunch of big promises he made some minor changes, then suddenly dug in his heels and actually hindered more then helped. 

He should of just put out a Presidential order on the matter.  Instead you end up with gay rights rallies getting shouted out by people saying "Yes We Can".   It's a complete mess.

There only positive you wouldn't expect too many gays to go Republican no matter how bad you treat them.

Scary thing is... Republican Gay groups are booming.

GOProud is the new group... it's surpassing the Log Cabin Republicans.

They know they won't get gay rights from the republicans, but figure if they won't get it from the democrats either, they may as well stop being 1 issue and support other policies they believe in.

How is this law constitutional? Can you explain that to me?