Comments on: Log Cabin takes up mantle of liaison to House

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:54:48 +0000

Obviously, there will never be pro-gay legislation or even gay recognition with a Republican controlled Congress. For every gay vote they might get, they would lose ten Christian votes. ENDA is gone, and DOMA is here to stay, at least for another 16 years. I’m none too optimistic about the Dems repealing DADT during the lame-duck session, either. But hopefully I’ll be proven wrong on that one.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:40:20 +0000

Thanks Sir Andrew. Sadly, the post captions are not subject to spellcheck so while such an error would be detected in the body of the post, my naturally atrocious spelling catches me up.

By: Sir Andrew

Sir Andrew — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:30:09 +0000

A small, friendly note, Tim: It’s ‘liaison’. The news editor in me wants to warn you that misspellings such as that cause people to mistrust your writing, even if only subconsciously.

By: Tone

Tone — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:15:39 +0000

If Barack Obama has feet of clay on LGBT issues, can anyone seriously think that the current complexion of the GOP will be any better? Ring Ring, “Who’s calling?” Reality, and she’s calling collect.

By: Lucrece

Lucrece — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:10:04 +0000

If the Democrats with such a wide margin in the House could not get a vote on ENDA, you can forget about it ever happening under a Republican majority.

The NE Republicans are hardly representative of the party.

You’re talking about the House Republicans who voted near unanimously against DADT repeal when it came up. If anything, the new brand of Republicans elected are even more conservative.

You can kiss anything happening for LGBT’s outside of the lame duck session goodbye.

Everything else will need to come from the courts until the Democrats gain supermajorities in the Senate and House again.

And no, barely 60 votes counting DINO’s from the Hicksville in the Senate was not a supermajority.

By: John in the Bay Area

John in the Bay Area — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:09:10 +0000

There is no evidence that Republicans will vote to overturn Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. One of the only House Republicans to do so, Daou, lost his seat.

They aren’t fixing any tax inequities affecting gay families either. I doubt that the incoming Republicans would even agree to give this guy 5 minutes of their time to make his spiel.