oft-mentioned possibilities are olympia snowe, susan collins, scott brown, george voinovich, and dick lugar. two of those senators are from the same state, the state of maine. so that s why you had this event in portland, maine, organized by the service members legal defense network, and the pop star about whom every continues to say, get her as a guest on your show, to which i continue to show, boy, i d love to. i m here because don t ask, don t tell is wrong. it s unjust. and fundamentally, it is against all that we stand for as americans. in any workplace, there are tensions. there s even more possibility to have tension when you re fighting for your life. but i m more concerned that john mccain and other republican
for being here. i have a feeling we ll be bugging you all day tomorrow so keep us posted on how things are going. no problem. joining us now is major mike almy, who was discharged from the air force under don t ask, don t tell, although he was asked and never told. he testified that don t ask, don t tell is unconstitutional. today he spoke at the rally in maine. mike, thanks very much for being here. good to see you again. good to see you again. thank you, rachel, for having me. hearing that update from ken strickland, from our senate producer there, do you have any expectations in terms of what s going to happen in the senate tomorrow? are you optimistic about the chances for repeal? personally, i m still optimistic. there s been so much effort to get us to this day tomorrow, and there has been so much pressure, so much grassroots movement to get these senators to sway their vote, to support the american public on this issue. the reality of it is we just don t know, as ken s
so that s why you had this event organized by the service member s legal defense network and the pop star about whom every continues to say, get her as a guest on your show, to which i continue to show, boy, i d love to. i m here because don t ask, don t tell is wrong. it s unjust and fundamentally, it is against all that we stand for as americans. in any workplace, there are tensions. there s even more possibility to have tension when you re fighting for your life. but i m more concerned that john mccain and other republican senators are using homophobia as a defense in their argument, as the nexus of this law, openly gay soldiers affect unit
joining us now is major mike almy, who was discharged from the air force under don t ask, don t tell, although he was asked and never told. he testified that don t ask, don t tell is unconstitutional. today he spoke at the rally in maine. mike, thanks very much for being here. good to see you again. good to see you again. thank you, rachel, for having me. hearing that update from ken strickland, from our senate producer there, do you have any expectations in terms of what s going to happen in the senate tomorrow? are you optimistic about the chances for repeal? personally, i m still optimistic. there s been so much effort to get us to this day tomorrow, and there has been so much pressure, so much grassroots movement to get these senators to sway their vote, to support the american public on this issue. the reality of it is we just don t know, as ken strickland just highlighted, it s all going to come down to tomorrow afternoon and it s going to be a real nail biter. i wonder i
won t let her buy a sugary soda in a school s vending machine. a lot of the money that we re spending goes to things that we know will not prevent aids, but indeed will continue to spread the disease, when a lot of our money goes to distribute condoms in high schools, when a lot of our money goes to distribute material that is literally pornographic. the culture wars are back. in some cases, they never went away. people got jobs doing other things, raising money on culture war issues, doing some other stuff around politics, keeping a hand in, now they ve just been promoted to high-ranking electoral candidates again. trading prayer in schools for mosques. trading bill clinton s a drug dealer for barack obama s a socialist. trading abortion restrictions for even more restrictive abortion restrictions. trading the gay agenda for the gay agenda. trading don t ask, don t tell for don t ask, don t tell. the culture wars are back. someone hide the national