Posted on 12/21/2010 6:30:30 PM PST by Baladas
Washington (CNN) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday led jubilant legislators and soldiers discharged under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in singing "God Bless America" to celebrate the upcoming repeal of the controversial law.
President Barack Obama will sign the repeal bill on Wednesday, and Pelosi did her part at the ceremony attended by hundreds of supporters of the repeal by signing the measure passed by Congress to send it to the White House.
The "don't ask, don't tell" policy enacted in 1993 banned openly gay and lesbian soldiers from military service. More than 14,000 military members have been discharged because of it.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, said the military will be made stronger by including all Americans who want to serve without making gay and lesbian members lie about who they are.
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Pelosi then asked all in attendance to sing "God Bless America." At the end, Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, one of the first openly gay House members, could be seen wiping his eyes
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Who held up the cue cards so they knew the words to God Bless America?
Easy for her, she doesn't have to server with these perverts.
I hear ya! I’ve seen a number of instances of Democrats singing or chanting the old loyalist standards over the last few months. What a pant-load. As if they were loyalists...
Here’s lookin at you stretch. Will her face melt?
Who held up the cue cards so they knew the words to God Bless America?
Singing “God Bless America” is a slap in the face not only to God but Americans as they have consistently opposed the homosexual agenda.
California is getting LOTS and LOTS of rain...just sayin’.
Nazi Polizei and her band of America-haters sang God Bless America as their way of poking fun at Americans. Our day will come.
Yes Pelosi is San Francisco all the way...they HATE that song except when it can be used to mock America and mock God. I’m sure it is popular at those “Metropolitan Community Churches” that describes themselves as a “ministry” for faggots by faggots for the glory of faggotry.
I’m sure very few people thought it was sincere and God knows that it wasn’t.
The blatant wickedness of this woman will not go on indefinitely. This abomination will be rewarded with justice; I just hope that she is in San Fransiko or D.C. when the landscape is leveled.
All Hail, Queen of Sodom!
Blatant. Yeah that’s a perfect word to describe her.
Historians will mark this day as the final straw that broke the Hyper-Power’s back. The height of stupidity, where political correctness was placed before National security.
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