The Family Research Council in yesterday’s Washington Update pounced on language in the Defense Authorization bill “repealing the military’s sodomy ban” following the end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. “While liberals couldn’t be bothered to consider amendments protecting religious liberty or marriage, they did find time to advance the President’s perverse agenda,” the group told members, “If the bill passes, our troops will have Congress’s approval to introduce sodomy in the ranks.”
The group also alerted members of a purported attempt by Democrats to “sneak an amendment onto the Defense bill to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).” However, a spokesman for the repeal bill’s chief sponsor Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) told Metro Weekly’s Chris Geidner that “it is not true that Sen. Feinstein is ‘threatening to attach [DOMA repeal] to the Defense Authorization Bill.”
The fiscal year may have kicked off on October 1, but the Senate is just now getting around to funding its departments. After the Armed Services Committee approved the Defense Authorization bill back in June, our sources tell us that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) could bring the spending measure to the floor as early as this week. Unfortunately for our troops, the bill hides a lot more than appropriations. Buried deep in the Pentagon’s budget is one major change in Defense policy. As part of the mark-up, the Senate included language repealing the military’s sodomy ban. That’s right. While liberals couldn’t be bothered to consider amendments protecting religious liberty or marriage, they did find time to advance the President’s perverse agenda. If the bill passes, our troops will have Congress’s approval to introduce sodomy in the ranks.
There’s also a distinct possibility (as we mentioned last week) that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) could try to sneak an amendment onto the Defense bill to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). While there’s no confirmation that she’ll go through with it, Feinstein would have to scrounge up 60 votes just to attach the anti-marriage bill onto the final legislation. That’s a tall task in this Senate climate where many incumbent Democrats don’t want to be seen voting for sodomy and against marriage!
