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We Do Read The Newspaper, Obama. Thanks.

May 26, 2010 Front Page, Politics, Problems 2 Comments

Big shout out to a former LYVEF employee! Last night, Kip Williams, co-founder of the gay rights group GetEqual, called out on Obama on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell during a fundraising speech for Barbara Boxer.

The President’s response was disappointing, at best. He told Kip that he should “buy a ticket to a guy who doesn’t support his point of view, and then you can yell as much as you want there”, and that he must “not be reading the newspapers”.

There’s no point in yelling at “a guy who doesn’t support” repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell when there’s a guy who does and has the power to make it happen but just isn’t doing it.

Check out Kip’s letter about the exchange and join the call for Obama to issue an Executive Order repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell!

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Rachel Bishop

For Love or Country: ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Sucks.

September 28, 2009 Front Page 2 Comments

Many of my family members are in the armed forces. My grandfather served in WW2, my uncle enlisted in the National Guard and my cousin is at military school.

I was never much of a fighter, but I always had the utmost of respect for anyone who would be willing to give of themselves and fight for their country. Military enlistment remains middling, but still, many are denied the opportunity to serve the country they love because their sexuality does not fall in line with what the military deems ‘acceptable’.

Like an aging elephant in the room, the looming specter of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) acts as a burden to progress. Why – in a nation as advanced as America – can men and women be refused the right to fight for their country, as a result of who they love? Let’s look at a few cases where brave Americans’ dedication and love of country was ignored as a result of the unjust, and frankly unAmerican, DADT policy.