Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Religion & Law Blogs -> Constitutionally Correct

Religion & Law

: Constitutionally Correct

?Ask Obama about Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell?

By Alliance Alert

Wall Street Journal: "Gay Americans have been among the president's most ardent supporters. Their enthusiasm, and that of their families and friends, could be crucial in this year's elections. The president's action?or inaction?on Don't Ask Don't Tell will be noticed. An increasingly frustrated bloc of gay voters?angry over marriage setbacks in California, Maine, New Jersey and New York and emboldened by Ted Olson's and David Boies's high-profile effort to declare unconstitutional laws that prohibit gay marriage?are growing impatient for equality. As Mr. Olson said in federal district court in San Francisco recently, discriminatory laws serve only to 'label gay and lesbian persons as different, inferior, unequal and disfavored.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 25, 2010 (boomark / email).