tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post854328080349086932..comments2023-10-02T04:41:34.722-04:00Comments on Marry in Massachusetts: Carrying a Small Stick in Gay Rights Battlesmassmarrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358207247771711952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post-86065154006809668262009-10-11T14:40:50.633-04:002009-10-11T14:40:50.633-04:00What also sucks is that Obama had a great opportun...What also sucks is that Obama had a great opportunity to speak out on behalf of Approve 71 for Washington State. Here it is about Domestic Partnerships with all the rights of marriage (so not the word). Isn't that what Obama says is his belief? So why the silence. I can tell you why. Because Gay Inc. ie HRC and many of the state equality groups/players such as Friedes, Rouse, Solomon etc. are focusing on Maine and the Reversal of Prop 8in California. That is I believe Washington was months ago forgotten or pre-empted in treillage for what would be accomplished this Fall. The poor LGBT of Washington State are made to fend for themselves, while sincerely believing and hoping that Gay Inc. has their best interests in mind. Washington is a very sad state of affairs...Tom Langhttp://www.knowthyneighbor.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post-50859930025707723012009-10-11T14:07:14.008-04:002009-10-11T14:07:14.008-04:00What was truly disturbing was that the crowd at th...What was truly disturbing was that the crowd at the HRC dinner actually let him get away with this. He gave them pretty much the same song and dance he's been performing since begging for our votes in the Democratic primaries last year only this time while patting himself on the back for the limited place he's given us at the grown ups table and inviting us to the Easter Egg Roll. Instead of demanding answers, they insanely cheered as the stream of insults to their "relationships" (the word married was used only for opposite sex couples), their causes and their intelligence kept coming. <br /><br />While there are those who say, well at least he's talking to us, so far to me it's been like trading a spouse who is physically abusive for one who is only psychologically abusive and reacting as if that was something of an improvement. Well, it isn't. We gave him the opportunity to mend some fences for his complete lack of real accomplishment, the continued Justice Department defense of DOMA and the unending stream of expulsions under DA/DT and the best he could muster is that he'll do better, maybe, someday, but not sure when. There was no offer to stop the expulsions from the armed forces until he asks Congress to get its act together, or even a hint at when he might even do that. No offer to at least reign in the DOJ on the DOMA challenges. And in the biggest and completely unforgivable insult by omission of the evening, not one word of denunciation of the referendums in Washington and Maine intending to strip the right of equality from same sex couples, not even as much of a word of encouragement to those whom that fight directly affects.<br /><br />Given the speech he delivered last night, it's probably a good thing that the President chose not to speak to the equality march today and snuck out of town last night. If he were foolish enough to try that blow job on the crowd there, he would have pushed the crowd from peaceful protest to angry riot in very short order.Rick in Kansasnoreply@blogger.com