**Emphasis mine.For what seemed like forever, Democrats told us that when the big bad Republicans went away, our lives would improve. Well, the Republican nightmare is over, so why do I still feel like I'm in the middle of a political Friday the 13th movie?
The Democrats took our money, our votes and our volunteer hours and now they tell us to wait patiently, like good little gays. As far as I'm concerned, if the donkeys can't deliver now, they can kiss my ass.** The Democrats run the show in Washington and if they will not act like a majority party, then they do not deserve to be one.
This is not about making unreasonable policy demands, but about the Democrats recognizing the daily struggles faced by gay people. A new report by The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs said, "Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people increased 2% from 2007 to 2008, continuing the trend of a 24% total increase in 2007."
Yesterday, I read about a lesbian who was barred from visiting her partner in a Fresno hospital, and as a result her partner received the wrong medication. Last week, I was in conservative Western Michigan where I spoke to young people who were nearly driven to suicide as a result of anti-gay attitudes.
We need a president who recognizes these evils and demonstrates the courage and leadership to enact the change he so eloquently promised during his campaign.
Read it all HERE.
More later.
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Obama is making a BIG MISTAKE by shunting us (GBLT) to the back of the bus. He may think we have nowhere else to go but we can sit on our hands and our pocketbooks. I certainly won't be contributing any more money to the Democrats.
ReplyDeleteActually, the Same Old, Same Old attitude of this administration isn't even necessary now as more Americans than ever how support the repeal of DADT and DOMA. How ironic that Obama and the Democrats are going down the road of discounting the GLBT community yet again.
I for one will now do what I did when Clinton pussied out on his promise to allows gays to serve openly in the military....I cease to pay attention to anything that comes out of his mouth. The old question that "how can you tell if a politician is lying?" His/her lips move.
As I've read elsewhere, "Yes, we can" has been amended to include "but, no, we won't".
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