Bravo Obama. In a country where so many people will use appointments such as this as a reason not to vote for you – you do the right thing and appoint on merit. Bravo!
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He clearly has the experience and the ability to do the job – so I wish him well.
His orientation should be irrelevant.
That said, it is good to see a visible gay man being given a very senior role in the US military.
Progress!
Tehre is a General Boykin who just left to work for the hate group FRC.
the (womans vulva) is an evangelical, as are almost all of that groups leadership
Tony perkins the president is a racist.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/picture-worth-thousand-memories
Peter spriggs is a baptist minister, his pants are way to tight to show off his butt and he was a actor in xtian plays in college.
The founder of the frc hate group is george rekers – he got caught. he also is a baptist minister.
http://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-anti-gay-activists-caught-being-gay/joanne
Relevance?
Bravo Obama. In a country where so many people will use appointments such as this as a reason not to vote for you – you do the right thing and appoint on merit. Bravo!
He looks so young… How old is he? (Maybe in my age group…)
Obama just gets better and better. As Stu says, Fanning’s orientation is irrelevant and this appointment shows that Obama thinks so too.
conceivabvly there is a secondary motive for doing this appt.
the right wing freakos will have a public fit, and make the people in the middle understand whats happened to the Repubs .
and not vote for them.
Thanks for this article and your reporting. What you do is appreciated.
I posted it to my LGBT Group on LinkedIn to spur members to read your article and to make comment. I also scooped it at Scoop.It on my LGBT Times news mashup.
Link to group >> http://www.linkedin.com/groups/LGBT-Gay-GLBT-Professional-Network-63687/about
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