Comments on: HISTORIC: Obama endorses marriage equality

By: NAACP president: Md. marriage law ensures religious freedom | Washington Blade - America's Leading Gay News Source

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:02:53 +0000

[...] The NAACP Board of Directors in May passed a resolution in support of nuptials for gays and lesbians… Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville remains one of the most prominent opponents to Maryland’s same-sex marriage law, but the first Marylanders for Marriage Equality television ads in support of Question 6 that began airing last week on WBAL in Baltimore feature Rev. Delman Coates of Mount Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton in Prince George’s County and Rev. Donté Hickman of Southern Baptist Church in Baltimore. [...]

By: I'm Just Sayin'

I'm Just Sayin' — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:36:53 +0000

Francois, if it makes you feel better, send Dick Cheney a thank you note. However, if you are financially able to support the President’s re-election efforts and you aren’t simply because you thought the timing of the solicitation was gauche, then let me give you the perspective you seek.

Answer this single question: What happens to the fight for equality if Mitt Romney is the person shaping the ideology of a federal judiciary from which every major step forward in equality in the past 50+ years emanated?

The real distractions in this election are the economy and jobs. Who nominates the next 2 -3 justices is the big prize on which party insiders are focused.

By: CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON

CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:18:28 +0000

“chris,”
I AM A MASCULINE HOMOSEXUAL. I DO NOT THINK “QUEENS” – TRADITIONAL ONES, AT LEAST – WOULD BE READERS OF, Washington Blade.
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON

By: Francois Arouete

Francois Arouete — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:56:15 +0000

When President Obama sent me an email asking for yet more money immediately after announcing his ‘evolution’ on ‘marriage equally’ (the money grubbers couldn’t wait a New York minute) all I wanted to know was, Why should I give him money for saying no more than Dick Cheney said eight years ago?

Yes, eight years ago the war-monger one-percenter Vice President Dick Cheney came out and said exactly what Obama said two days ago but no one made much of a brouhaha about his ‘evolution’. And “whisk, whisk, goodbye to all that. History is bunk.” Hurray! Hurray!

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By: rickindc

rickindc — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:02:27 +0000

Nothing like distracting away from the real issue for 2012, THE ECONOMY!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:42:06 +0000

Now ain’t that the truth.

Next month will be 43 years since Stonewall, and one of the reasons we haven’t achieved full equality yet is because there are self-hating, self-destructive lunatics among us, in our own community. Morons who don’t have three pragmatic atoms in all their brains combined.

Read the comments in the popular gay blogs and weep.

I fear for us, as a community.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:49:30 +0000

WOW..Some of you queens are just pathetic and Insane!

By: Bill Perdue

Bill Perdue — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:03:35 +0000

Or write in Brad Manning,

By: CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON

CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:31:22 +0000

“Bill Perdue,”
MAN, I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT STAYING HOME THIS ELECTION. NO ONE IN MEMPHIS SEEMS TO BE EXCITED. MEMPHIANS EITHER DO NOT LIKE HIM, OR, THINK HE IS A “SHOE-IN.” PEOPLE NEED TO BE STIMULATED IN ORDER TO VOTE; IN THIS ELECTION CYCLE, NO ONE PROVIDES THIS STIMULATION. SO, THE NEGRO COMMUNITY CAN CHEER. HISTORY BOOKS WILL PROBABLY SAY, “America’s First African-American President Won Re-Election by a Landslide.” AND, THE “SLOW-ROLL” DOWNHILL CONTINUES.
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON

By: Bill Perdue

Bill Perdue — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:33:19 +0000

This changes very little.

When Obama came out partially in favor of the right to marriage, leaving it up to bigots in states and localities to decide, this is what changes – we’ll no longer say that “Obama is a long time bigot, a racist warmonger, a Bill of Rights busting lap dog of the rich and an empire building union buster.” Instead we’ll say that “Obama is a long time, partially contrite bigot, a racist warmonger, a Bill of Rights busting lap dog of the rich and an empire building union buster.”
Obama is a right wing candidate. He’s to the right of Nixon across the board on civil liberties, unions and union rights, Social Security and Medicare, the drug wars, environmental questions and wars of aggression.

The way forward for working people, the only group capable of creating real change, lies in independence from our enemies in the Democrat and Republican parties and in supporting unions, the growing union left, the Occupiers and the struggle movements of people of color, women and the GLBT communities. That won’t change no matter which right wing candidate wins.

On November 6th sit it out or vote socialist as a protest and otherwise spend your time building the movement, not one of the two parties of bigots.