I hate "I told you so" moments, but as I said in my column last week in the Dallas Voice, I sincerely believe DADT repeal is dead, and so does Harry Reid. In his floor schedule for the week of Dec. 6 there is no mention of debate on the Armed Services Bill to which it is attached.
The Senate will busy itself with the myriad of other important work they neglected to take care of during the past session, like Strategic Arms Reductions, the Dream Act and funding government so it doesn't shut down.
They have successfully kicked the can down the road so many times they only have one week left to do all the work and something gets sacrificed...namely LGBT rights.
So, what can we do? Well for me calling or writing my Senator is hopeless. My representatives in the Senate are the most dogmatically ideological Republicans in the bunch, Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Pete Sessions. I have called and written many times and get nice polite form letters explaining how important "family values" are and how essentially I can go jump off a cliff.
My answer for now is this, put my money where my heart is. I am spending at as many LGBT merchants for Christmas this year as I can, and have suspended all political contributions until I see some movement on LGBT rights. Of course I still get requests for funds from every Democrat in Congress and to them I say, "show me the rights and I'll show you the money"!
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