Giuliani to GOP: End DADT in Lame-Duck Session
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that the GOP needed to help repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” during the lame-duck session as a way to attract LGBT voters to the party in the aftermath of Tuesday’s election:
GIULIANI: I didn’t see [Don't Ask, Don't Tell] as a big issue in this. The social issues were not in this. So maybe that’s an area where Republican can ease up a little bit and not …
BLITZER: But you support gay rights?
GIULIANI: I do.
BLITZER: So you would get rid of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
GIULIANI: My feeling about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was, in the middle of the height of the Iraq war, not a good time to do it. We’re not in the middle of the height of the Iraq war. Afghanistan is a different kind of thing. You could probably accomplish it now. It’s eventually going to happen and it seems to me that it gets my party out of this anti-gay, feeling that we’re being unfair to people who are gay.
Ending this discriminatory law is not a controversial move in the eyes of the American people, who overwhelmingly back repeal. Giuliani’s support for getting rid of DADT is the latest reminder that lifting the ban on open service will be a way for politicians of either party to show they are in touch with those who elected them.
Watch the clip below or click here for the full segment (starting at the 2:56 mark), and spread the word.
Keep up the pressure to repeal DADT by calling both your senators today and telling them that lame-duck session is the time to nix this bad law.
11-04-10 By Paul DeMiglio, Senior Communications Manager |
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