This time, the the call from HRC is to “Repeal DADT now. Not tomorrow. Not next year. Now.” One can only hope that HRC will challenge the Democratically controlled Congress and President Obama to deliver their promises to repeal DADT. If they do, HRC will help the movement greatly.
It is time for some accountability for our Democratic friends, and I’m hopeful that HRC is starting down that road. If not, HRC might find itself to blame as clearly articulated by John Aravosis from AmericaBlog.
So where is HRC, which told us that everything was on track just two weeks ago, even though SLDN, Nathaniel Frank from the Palm Center, Senator Levin, Barney Frank and staffers in the House and Senate all have now publicly said that the administration isn’t showing the leadership it needs to show on DADT repeal? Everything is not on track, and groups like HRC and the Center for American Progress, which we only recently learned has been at the center of HRC’s “work” on this issue in the guise of their staffer Winnie Stachelberg (a former HRC staffer), are going to be held accountable if they continue to claim that everything is going well while the White House so obviously undercuts the effort to repeal DADT. It’s almost as if HRC and CAP are intentionally lying to America’s gay community and our straight allies, trying to convince us that everything is moving ahead swimmingly, when they know it’s not. That would be an unfortunate turn of events for both organizations, and their donors.
HRC launched a 
