Comments on: White House to host LGBT conferences across country http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/01/27/white-house-to-host-lgbt-conferences-across-the-country/ the gay community's news source Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:07:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Peter the saint http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/01/27/white-house-to-host-lgbt-conferences-across-the-country/#comment-43050 Peter the saint Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:01:57 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=34862#comment-43050 Really? They plan to “ensure… equality for LGBT Americans”?? Right… I would vote for Obama again if he promised FULL federal equality in all areas for LGBT Americans… otherwise, I will NOT be voting for him again. Period. It feels weird to be so disrespected by the first African American President. I prefer a Federal Amendment banning and nullifying his and all other marriages performed by clergy of any kind. I’d vote for someone with THAT platform…

]]> By: Reverend Timmy http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/01/27/white-house-to-host-lgbt-conferences-across-the-country/#comment-42945 Reverend Timmy Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:19:29 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=34862#comment-42945 Would be ‘equal’ of Obama to choose to define marriage in America to include mine to my husband. When he does, he’s earned our vote, period.

]]> By: Brandy Lawson http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/01/27/white-house-to-host-lgbt-conferences-across-the-country/#comment-42878 Brandy Lawson Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:47:13 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=34862#comment-42878 I am a huge proponent of Obama. Let’s face it, under any Republican, we will be forced backward. As far as Democrats go, he has to be our choice just because he IS the president and therefore, the Democratic nominee. I don’t think it’s a choice of who do we back in this election, but who are we gonna back when he can’t run anymore?

]]> By: Derek Williams http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/01/27/white-house-to-host-lgbt-conferences-across-the-country/#comment-42851 Derek Williams Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:34:28 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=34862#comment-42851 What more evidence do LGBT voters need of the commitment of this president to our call for equality? Considering the anti-gay rhetoric of the Teapublicans, it is clear we need to do everything in our power to ensure the re-election of Barack Obama, and it’s not just because he he has already lived up to every promise he made us and a whole lot more besides. The Affordable Health Care Act was the first step, but there has been winding down of US warmongering, ending the war in Iraq, presenting the American Jobs Act, and steady upturns in an economy devastated by the warmongering G.W. Bush.

President Obama has more than lived up to his pre-election commitments to us. As promised in his first term, he has repealed DADT, orphaned DOMA, recorded YouTube “It Gets Better” videos together with Vie-President Joe Biden for suicidal LGBT youth, spoken at HRC conventions, held LGBT Receptions at the White House, promulgated a Memorandum on LGBT Rights from the White House – delivered at the United Nations by Hillary Clinton, and said he is opposed to states taking away rights from LGBT people.

Supported by over 70% of respondents to a military survey, over 70% of the general population, passed by Congress and the Senate, backed by military chiefs and supported by the President and Vice President and their families, DADT repeal is here to stay, thanks to the backing of President Obama.

If that’s not good enough for one term, then I doubt we’ll ever be satisfied.

Republican 2012 presidential candidates on the other hand, are all badge-wearing homophobes wanting to pray away our gay, staunchly antagonistic to LGBT Rights, variously committed to reinstating DADT, upholding DOMA, and/or dissolving all existing and future same sex marriages in the entire country by seeking an amendment to the US Constitution. They’re also likely to stack the SCOTUS with anti-gay judges and abolish the 9th Circuit.

The President is clearly onside, and he will get marriage equality done in his second term, if we’ll just let him have one. Let the man get elected already! He has far bigger fish to fry right now than just our LGBT issues. After all, he was elected to govern for all Americans, and we are self-declared at only 4% of the US population.

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