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By The Daily Dish
Jul 29 2009, 3:27 AM ET

The Daily Mail - a very conservative paper - celebrates openly gay soldiers in the UK. President Obama keeps firing his - and has no plans to stop persecuting them. That's why he was elected, right? To fire people solely for being gay and serving their country. He has the power to end it with a stop-loss order. But he refuses. The country supports ending the ban by over 75 percent. And here's the attitude of the Democrats:

Indeed, MREA (stop-loss option) does not even have the votes to get out of the Armed Services Committee, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of 36 to 25.


In the Senate, there's not a single sponsor. Every day Obama refuses to act, and with every gay person he personally fires, he legitimizes and entrenches homophobia.



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