Call Sen. Manchin to urge repeal of DADT

by: Clem Guttata

Fri Dec 03, 2010 at 15:30:33 PM EST

In Congressional testimony this week the military has made it clear that they are ready for Congress to repeal the discriminatory "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy.

An overwhelming amount of the American people, the military, and the service chiefs support ending this terrible system. There's no excuse for Sen. Manchin to not support it.

Call Sen. Manchin today at (202) 224-3954 and tell him to support all our troops by voting to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell.

If you've already called-thanks a lot. Feel free to call again or ask your friends and family to call too. Write it on Facebook. Post it on Twitter. Send a telegram! (Ok, that's a joke).

Sen. Manchin needs to hear from as many voices as possible. Please call (202) 224-3954 today and tell him to vote to repeal this discriminatory policy.

Sincerely,
Stephen Skinner
Fairness WV

If you have time to make more than one call, give Sen. Rockefeller a call, too. DC office: 202-224-6472 or email Sen. Rockefeller.

Update - I agree with Matt Yglesias: For the Record...

I really wonder what's happening, subjectively, inside the heads of people who oppose repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell. Do any of them think they're on the right side of history here? That people are going to look back from 2040 and say "if only we'd listened to John McCain thirty years ago?"

So we should just put it down for the record here. In 2010 when faced with the opportunity to follow all of our important allies down the road of equality, a whole bunch of conservative politicians just decided that their ethics doesn't make room for the idea that gay and lesbian Americans are human beings whose interests should count in deliberations. They refused to articulate exactly what it is that they think gay and lesbians Americans are if not free and equal citizens of the United States. But they made it clear through their words and needs that whatever it is gay and lesbians Americans are, it's not free and equal citizens of the country. They're some kind of subordinate class whose interests can and should be sacrificed to the alter of political expedience or knee-jerk prejudice or something else. It's repugnant and despicable.