The wheels of the bus go round and round....

Logic be dammed.

Today, this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up a case involving Don't Ask, Don't Tell ( dadt).

From todays WaPo:

The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a challenge to the Pentagon policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, granting a request by the Obama administration.

The court said it will not hear an appeal from former Army Capt. James Pietrangelo II, who was dismissed under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

The federal appeals court in Boston earlier threw out a lawsuit filed by Pietrangelo and 11 other veterans. He was the only member of that group who asked the high court to rule that the Clinton-era policy is unconstitutional.

In court papers, the administration said the appeals court ruled correctly in this case when it found that "don't ask, don't tell" is "rationally related to the government's legitimate interest in military discipline and cohesion."

Is it time to admit that the Obama administration lied to us? Time to just sit still and take the egg in the face while Michael and Brett do their " I TOLD YOU SO " dance, all around us.

Again, and I so , so , so wish I did not have to keep bringing this up, but 1992 was a massive kick in the teeth for me. I was as in love with Bill Clinton as any rabid 22 year old blogger from Chicago could have been with President Obama.I believed it all, hook line and sinker. Just the luck of the draw that I choose to come out to myself( the world was a little bit later ) at the peak of AIDS and Reaganism. Gloom and doom were a reality, not a woe-as-me sort of thing, but a real life, real time .... doom. Not just Silence but GAY = death. The twelve years, 80 -92, had been cataclysmic for the gay community, and like I have said before Bill Clinton offered the rarest of the rare: HOPE.  His clay feet came as a shock as Sam Nunn and the GOP gave The President a choice, say good-bye to your entire agenda or toss those gays under the wheels of that bus. Welcome DADT and DOMA.

Sixteen years later, a diagnosis of being HIV positive is no long a death sentence, but glbt Americans are still being discriminated against by those two laws. I can understand the third railness of any politician getting near DOMA. California and prop 8 were a wake up call that the religious right will got to any lengths to smack down the gays. BUT kicking FULLY QUALIFIED professional service men and women from the armed forces just defies all logic. One has to think that there are these hard core , nothing but dogmatic, homophobic OLD WHITE MEN sitting in some room in the Pentagon doing this. Our country is at war and we are losing good solders , for NO  LOGICAL REASON.

President Obama claims to be a FIERCE ADVOCATE for gay and lesbian Americans, but not a finger has been lifted. Sure , the language is as rose colored and as happy as can be, full of that same hope and inclusion. But are we back under the tires of that bus? If so this one will be even harder to take. At least Bill Clinton tried to keep his word. How long is too long , or how fast is fast enough? In the end, what recourse do we have?