tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141703.post7119610713978033759..comments2024-02-21T17:03:05.861-08:00Comments on Petrelis Files: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08359712473083091475noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141703.post-33837702292725818962010-06-26T03:26:17.335-07:002010-06-26T03:26:17.335-07:00Hey Michael:
Personally I am kind of conflicted o...Hey Michael:<br /><br />Personally I am kind of conflicted on the time travel of blaming Clinton so harshly on DADT. It was along tome ago. Adn as I remember at that time in 1993 the Dems who controlled Congress during Clinton's first term weren't all that gay friendly and DADT was implemented so Gays and Lesbians could at least serve where before that they couldn't at all and at no time did anyone expect that 3rd person outing in the military would be used. Also as I said before there was little chance that the Dem controlled Congress which was against Lesbian and Gay intergration at the time would have passed something like that. And Clinton didn't use an executive order becuse he thought it would push the antu-gay Dems and Repubs into writing the exclusion of homosexuals into law, potentially making it harder to integrate the military in the future and overturn DADT which shoudl NOT be as hard aa Obama had made it.<br /><br />Not a Clinton apologist. he wasn't the best for the LGBT Community. BUT it was a diferent time with different attitdues in Congress and the country. There was nowhere near the approval rating for letting lesbians and gays serve openly as there is today and a major majority of the Congress was against it.Will Kohlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14645133636814823077noreply@blogger.com