While it’s nice to have both the Republican (Dold) and the Democrat (Seals) specifically state their choices in these sides – a feat that’s becoming more rare these days – these differences are still significant.

Moderate Republicans have come a long way – from overt hostility to offering crumbs from the dinner table of equality and liberty, but crumbs are still crumbs.

Dold’s stance on DADT can be summed up as:
I’ll support gays in the military as long as the people who have already stated they are for gays serving openly in the military state that they are for gays serving openly in the military.

When will Republicans admit that the Pentagon study is not “whether or not gays serving openly in the military can happen” but rather “how to make it happen with the least amount of trouble”

Lovely.

Why should I ever vote for any Republican? If this is the best “moderates” can do, forget it.

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again. I’d rather have a pol that’s apathetic towards gay rights than a pol that works actively to chisel away at them and prevent them from happening. This includes pols who support organizations that do these things.

It is good that Dan Seals is so progressive, but let’s not forget the fundamental injustice of putting decisions about these two topics into the hands of people who will never experience the consequences, particularly bad, of opposition.