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The Democratic Party’s New LGBT “Equality” Agenda: Big Words, Short Arms

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It’s really interesting to see how mainstream cable newsmedia is lauding the Democratically-controlled 111th Congress for getting so much done. It’s not entirely undeserved of course, but when one takes a close look at what actually did get done this past session of Congress in terms of protecting and ensuring equal civil rights for all Americans, we find that their actual results are really not quite as impressive as some would like us to believe. The repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is a great example of what I’m talking about here. Long overdue to be sure, but also only actually impacting the lives of just a tiny fraction of a single percent of the American LGBT workforce, just like the rest of the “progress” made on LGBT rights by this administration thus far, mainly by Executive Order of one form or another. What about the rest of us, the

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“The Democratic Party’s New LGBT “Equality” Agenda: Big Words, Short Arms” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging public policy and governance. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

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    Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Law and civil rights to Labor, economics, and institutions: Related theme in the same family
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