All I can say to PG county Md is welcome to the world of Cuyahoga OH.

I really don't understand what is so offensive about DADT? Just as the military has regulations not to station brothers and sisters in the same combat unit during wartime, and married couples are not supposed to be assigned to the same unit. The appearance of preference of one person over another or the extra stress of doing ones duty while a 'loved' one in sight is in severe jeopardy is not good for unit morale and unity.

What Congress has just proved is something that I've felt for quite sometime. Congress has made themselves totally irrelevant! They've delegated their regulatory responsibilties to Czars in the executive branch.

What does that leave?

Outside of George Washington there always has been.

I really don't require the disappearance of these Departments but I do need them to be taken out of the regulatory realm and be give advisory/clearing house duties.

No having a sincere belief is not bad. I may believe you are sincerely wrong but that is your prerogative. What is not good is saying you believe one way and your actions contradict the stated tenets of your avowed belief.

The very predictable outcome whenever we tinker with God's natural law to suit our own desires.

By their actions ye shall know them

Every time Progressives gain power they demonize capitalists. What is it that the populace can not see? A Capitalist would not be in business if he or she did not provide a good or service that was wanted or needed? TR, Wilson, FDR and now Obama use peoples envy and covetousness to coerce the sheep into the pen.