Via ltdanchoi on Twitter
The commander in chief invited me to attend tomorrow's bill signing; I am honored to report for duty.
And as exciting:
Reclaiming my West Point ring at 1p in the majority leader's office. I'm grateful for his leadership, service, and safe-keeping.
So Dan Choi will be there after all, along with some 500 other invited guests. And Harry Reid will return his West Point ring!
The signing ceremony will take place at 9:15 AM ET. I understand that it will take place in an auditorium in the Interior Department. I assume that it will be televised and/or streamed, but I don't have any information on that yet.
Not to be outclassed, Republicans and their operatives have been falling over themselves to praise the new law. Not.
John McCain:
"This is a sad day..."
Rush Limbaugh
Does this mean Mrs. Clinton can finally ... join the Marines?'
State Senator Delegate Bob Marshal, (R) Manassas, VA
This policy will weaken military recruitment and retention, and will increase pressure for a military draft,'' Marshall said. "After 232 years of prohibiting active, open homosexuals from enlisting in our military, President Obama and a majority in Congress are conducting a social experiment with our troops and our national security...In countries where religions and cultures find homosexual acts immoral, the Obama administration's repeal policy will work to the detriment of all American troops in securing local cooperation with our nation's foreign policy goals.
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association
"The armies of other nations have allowed gays to serve openly in the military. The reason they could afford to do this is simple: they could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn’t allow them to serve in ours. ... Those days are now gone. We will no longer be able to bail out these other emasculated armies because ours will now be feminized and neutered beyond repair, and there is no one left to bail us out. We have been permanently weakened as a military and as a nation by these misguided and treasonous Republican senators, and the world is now a more dangerous place for us all,"
And when openly gay soldiers in service to their country lie in state at Arlington National Cemetery after making the ultimate sacrifice, what will they say then? These are the kinds of people Dante's hell reserved a special level for.
Update: US Representative Mike Conaway
"I think my final conclusion was it’s a policy that’s currently working unless you intend to make sexuality your No. 1 issue when you wake up in the morning,
Update Finally found a site advertising a livestream for tomorrow's signing: DallasVoice
Update Another tweet from Lt. Choi:
Humbled to join @Autumn_Sandeen, a Transgender Retired Navy Petty Officer, at the bill signing. (#DADT is not trans-inclusive.)
Sandeen was one of the 13 chained to the White House fence several weeks ago.