Rather than rehashing all my disagreements with the tone, direction and misdirection of his coverage, I wanted to take this post to agree completely with John Aravosis on one point. The DOJ meeting with LGBT organizations’ lawyers should not end without these questions about the Smelt DOMA brief answered:
1. How high up in Justice and the White House was this brief cleared? Who was the highest political appointee in Justice to see the brief, or be informed of the brief, before it was filed, and who was the highest political appointee in the White House?
These are simple questions, and I see no reason why they should not be answered by “the most transparent Administration in history.”
Also, as if John and I don’t show this quite clearly, for some DNC member to think that “the blogs” represent one homogeneous homosexual opinion is absurd. A person on the call stated:
“What are we going to do about the blogs?”
Says something about at least some of the members of the DNC. As I wrote on Twitter on Sunday, we on the Internets are “heterogeneous homosexuals.” And that’s a good thing. (Click the link to get my list!)
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Chris Geidner is the award-winning senior political editor at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, The American Prospect, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. In 2011, he received the Excellence in News Writing Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his coverage of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found