Religious Right’s Plans for Fighting DADT Repeal- Right Wing Watch
When the Senate voted to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Matthew Staver of the Liberty Counsel promised the “full mobilization” of the Freedom Federation and “faith-based and policy organizations, veterans, and military families in the states of every Senator who voted for repeal of DADT against the advice of our service chiefs and during a time of war. Those Senators – and the Pentagon leaders responsible for this breach of trust – should understand that they will be the object of concerted political action against them.”
Of course, that threat was pretty vague, but now Staver has begun to lay out his plans in an interview with Concerned Women for America, explaining that they intend to push for state-based legislation barring gays from serving in the National Guard and pressuring House members to defund the implementation of the DADT repeal while seeking to elected members of Congress who vote to reinstate the law:
Matthew Staver: This is not the end of the line because there’s two situations that are happening; first of all on the national guard – in fact, there is already a bill that is being put forward in Virginia by a Delegate in that state to say that the National Guard is under the individual states and the direction of the Governor, not the President of the United States and therefore the National Guard in Virginia will not abide by this repeal and other states, I’m sure, will follow.
Secondly, and more importantly, it’s going to take a while for this law to actually be implemented and I believe that Congress can defund any implementation of this law when they take their seat in January.
And I believe that we can move forward to actually reinstate this law – I think we have enough votes in the House; we probably don’t have enough votes in the Senate obviously, but we need to move forward in 2011 and 2012 to make sure that we do have enough votes so that we can protect our men and women and our national security, put that at highest regard and not the homosexual agenda as this Congress and this President has done.
Contact you members of the House, particularly the House, and ask them to defund the implementation of this repeal next year. You know, as part of repeal they’re going to have to do training, they’re going to have to spend money and the House holds the purse strings and the House can certainly withhold those purse strings from any kind of action to implement this repeal.
Via: Staver Lays Out Religious Right’s Plans for Fighting DADT Repeal | Right Wing Watch.
