{"id":3651,"date":"2010-12-18T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T20:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2010-12-19T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T19:41:50","slug":"breaking-its-safe-to-tell-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/18\/breaking-its-safe-to-tell-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: It\u2019s Safe to Tell, At Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"18DADT\" border=\"0\" alt=\"18DADT\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/18DADT.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" \/>DADT repeal finally passed the Senate on a vote of 65-31.&#160; <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">It has been too long in coming.&#160; I offer my gay friends and a hearty congratulations for your victory over Republican hatred and Religious Right intolerance.&#160; Thank you to the Democrats in the House and Senate, who worked tirelessly to push this through, with the help of a small handful of Republicans who feared voter backlash at home.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This was the right way to get it done.&#160; It is no longer subject to Presidential whim.&#160; Had Obama overridden it by executive order, in spite of the Constitutional problems with him doing so, a Republican President could have reinstated it with the stroke of a pen.&#160; Once Obama signs this, Republicans will make noise about repealing it to soak their hate-filled base for contributions, but actually doing it would be like putting toothpaste back in a tube.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s nice to win one for a change.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DADT repeal finally passed the Senate on a vote of 65-31.&#160; It has been too long in coming.&#160; I offer my gay friends and a hearty congratulations for your victory over Republican hatred and Religious Right intolerance.&#160; Thank you to the Democrats in the House and Senate, who worked tirelessly to push this through, with <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/18\/breaking-its-safe-to-tell-at-last\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}