Replace "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," with "it’s none of our business"

Memo to President Barack Obama: If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is taking this position, there is no reason for you not to. You campaigned against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” call yourself an advocate for gay rights, and yet you’ve placed repeal on the backburner.

Reid, a somewhat cautious centrist, has now come out in favor of an immediate and permanent repeal of DADT. That should be your cue to force the issue sooner, rather than later.

As for former President Bill Clinton’s new-found support for same-sex marriage — professed last week and reported today in The Nation — I have only this to say: Fantastic, but where were you when the Defense of Marriage Act passed? You remember DOMA? You signed it into law.

Maybe, now that you’ve had a change of heart, you can begin agitating on the issue and convince President Obama to push legislation repealing DOMA.

Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet