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Image via Wikipedia The Obama administration is on the brink of officially repealing the military’s ban on open homosexuality. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to announce Friday afternoon that he has certified the change will not affect military readiness, according to Pentagon officials.  Panetta and Navy Admiral Mike Mullen will be meeting with President Obama at 2:45 p.m. Friday in the Oval Office , after which the announcement could take place. Once certified by Panetta and President Obama, the ban would be expected to end in another 60 days. Congress in December passed a preemptive repeal of DADT , which depended upon assurance from the Pentagon that the repeal would not disrupt military readiness. While administration officials claimed that a report released in November of last year proved that the repeal would be harmless, that claim has been the subject of fierce opposition from conservative groups, who note that the results from the study show an overwhelming

Image via Wikipedia Obama’s message to gay activists in New York may not have been as straightforward or bold as some would have liked, but the president did deliver an extended wink and nudge to those pressuring him to support gay “marriage” on the federal level. Joking that “I understand there’s a little debate going on here,” Obama addressed a Manhattan gay rights fundraiser gala the president himself hosted Thursday.  About six hundred guests were in attendance, reportedly at a cost of up to $35,800 per ticket. New York is currently on the brink of a vote about whether to extend legal marriage to homosexual couples. The GOP ’s lengthy delay in deciding whether or not to allow the bill to come up for a vote has kept tension high in the state for several days. The fate of the bill reportedly depends on winning just one more vote in the Republican-controlled Senate. At the event Obama lauded the “progress” he has made on the gay rights agenda, but defended himself against aud