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Maybe more straight people like me need to get involved in this issue, maybe straight people should join gay people in some kind of boycott or something. I dont know.
What I do know is that the gay rights movement needs a leader, and a good one. Who is that? I have no idea.
Overturn DADT and DOMA now!!!@#$%
Pass ENDA now!!!!!@#$$%
It is time. And my wife agrees.
And I agree with you Chris, we straights need to join gay people in action. =-)
In the space of just a few weeks: 1) the total silence about our issues from the "fierce advocate", as usual 2) some half assed "Pride Proclamation 3) The same ol' crap about not being able to immediately stop the discharges of gay and lesbian servicemembers 4) A DISGUSTING, homophobic piece of shit legal brief defending DOMA 4) John Berry uttering the same damn talking points about said legal brief as from the DoJ...plus saying Hate Crimes will be passed next, but then again, well we just don't have the votes 5) and now spineless as usual Harry Reid says he has no intention of introducing DADT repeal in the Senate, because well, Obama can do it. Am I missing anything?
And now we're asked to give MONEY to these people in some fundraiser? That's just a little too goddamned much to take.
I only hope Barney Frank and others that organized this 'fund raiser' have realized that with the issuance of the Justice Department hateful brief on LGBT's, that they will be wise to reverse themselves on their sponsorship of this charade of a fund raiser. I really have the sense that Obama has distanced himself from a group of people who not only fought to get him in office, but can also remove him in the next election cycle or hurt his chances in a very real way. Obama has not lived up to his famous rhetoric and promises he made prior to the election. Now he makes pretty speeches but I'm no longer impressed with his words which sound hollow and without meaning. Nick
make them take notice. Use Obama's own words.. we are the ones we have been waiting for.
Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington.
If San Franciscans elected a gay member of congress and booted Pelosi, that would be a pretty big deal.
Just saying.
Something you must always keep in mind about Pelosi (and Newsom for that matter) is that they are, by comparison, very conservative candidates. For the vaulted liberal reputation of the City, it consistently elects the most conservative of the possible candidates available (I don't count the token Republican sacrificial lambs who run in SF--they couldn't get elected dogcatcher). Cindy Sheehan ran against Pelosi last cycle, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone with a higher profile or access to more national funding. I don't think she cleared 5% of the vote. No one who wants to have a future in California politics is going to go against Pelosi and anyone without a future isn't going to win. Yes, that sucks, but the House of Representatives is an incumbency protection racket.
Term limits are a worse option. Part of the reason California finally melted down after all this time is that the last of the incumbents have been termed out of the leg. There's no one left in Sacramento (at least in the statehouse) that knows how to play the game well enough to keep it going with no visible means of support. The oldtimers could do it by force of will and accumulated power. The froshes don't have the juice.
A immediate step is to close our checkbooks to all the Democratic organizations and any candidate for Congress who hasn't endorsed or sponsored legislation to support full equality (including tax and Social Security benefits) and the repeal of DOMA and DADT.
But EVERYONE ON HERE should go to the above link at Pam's House Blend (my favorite net site) and really absorb the call to action there. Especially creating a gauntlet and yelling "Shame, Shame" whenever the Obamas or Bidens are present.
Man I was so in love with those idiots! I am duped as much as the arch conservatives say. Urg. Okay, well, no more - time to make them pay us back for ALL that fundraising and petition rounding.
Please check out "IamSmartypants"'s link and pass it around.
WE should stop supporting, in anyway the Democratic Party until DOMA or DADT is done away with.
We can do this ... let's do this.
With friends like these .....
Barney Frank - (202) 225-5931
Tammy Baldwin - (202) 225-2906
Jared Polis - (202 225-2161
He's untrustworthy. More pointedly, he's a liar. And that's what will really start tanking his numbers if it takes hold. And I think we should do everything in our power to make it happen as rapidly as possible. Better on this than on healthcare.
I think that Obama was planning to use that strategy. Too bad for him that he misjudged our anger and our ability to use technology to communicate. Adding to our anger is the Prop 8 vote and subsequent ruling.
As an aside, I have found your assessments and insights enlightening. Thanks for adding to the mix.
It is going to be a long hot summer. But it is also going to be a productive summer. Never have I been so optimistic. In a way, Obama is doing us a favor. Too bad it means that he will not be elected to a second term.
They don't want to repeat Clinton's poor press for DADT, but 15 years the landscape has changed, critical mass is building and the mistake will be not repealing DADT.
I'm seriously beginning to think he only wants one term, the way he's managing to drive away all his big money supporters.
Just checking ... 'cuz I was watching her and she did.
Unfortunately, the gay and lesbian community are to the Democratic Party that the religious right are (were) to the GOP.
If the GOP wanted to repeal Roe v Wade, it would have been done under Bush/Cheney, but, to do that would take away a social issue that they can turn into votes election after election.
If the Democrats wanted to repeal DADT, DOMA, and make sure gays and lesbians were no longer treated as second-class citizens, they could do it now. But, to do so would remove a huge liberal issue.
It's all a kabuki dance for votes...
http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2009/06/if-irania...
"The Justice Department's brief filed in defense of DOMA. We're tired of sitting in the back of the church."
Actually the LA Times had an article this morning about the rift that is taking place with the Obama Administration.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gayprid...
i'm tapped out anyway - not that i'm an a-lister or anything...
Yay!! Rachel!!
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I just don't understand why DADT is so hard to repeal. It's actually low hanging fruit because 70% of all Americans favor its repeal. Why can't anyone see that? Repeal it and be done with it!
"No Gay Rights, No Gay $$"
We should put this on all our dealings with the Administration and the Demo outfit. Let them know that we will not contribute to their BS as long as they use us for their own needs. I donated a fair amount to Obama but I sure as hell won't again. I got a solicitation in the mail from the DNC asking me to give them $$. I wrote the above on their contribution return and sent it back, at their expense of course.
Enough already. And another thing, Reid and Pelosi should be replaced by more competent individuals. They are a joke.
--Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From Birmingham Jail
We got Mother Jefferson instead.
Either that, or else Dean is offering him faint cover to allow Obama to backtrack without losing (too much) face.
This blog presents a broad array of topics for discussion and it has a diverse readership. While we encourage free exchange of ideas and opinions, an individual's racial or gender or sexual prejudices are off limits. You have expressed your dislike of heterosexuals again and again. Enough is enough. More of it will be deleted and you will be banned without further warning.
Sounds like something we should stamp on our paper money and let that spread around real fast!
He also signed into law DOMA!
I'll bet you hang on to your bitterness from a long-ago divorce, no?
Thanks for your post that doesn't help at all.
What concerns me is you are now an apologist for politics that even Ronald Reagan would be chastised for TODAY.
You don't have a clue, John, get out of D.C. a few times. The public's mood is now solidly AGAINST the Democrats without a SPINE. But they have health insurance. I hope you do.
And the Obama admin proposes that this obvious inequity is okay because opposite-sex marriage is recognized as 'traditional'. Well, in this country, of course it is, since up until recently, gays and lesbians risked injury or death if they came out as gay or lesbian. However, same-sex unions have occurred along with opposite-sex unions all throughout indigenous human history before modern western norms became entrenched. So, what is truly 'traditional'? Apparently, the definition of 'traditional' is as flexible as that of 'democracy'.
We call on all LGBT people and our allies to boycott the DNC-LGBT dinner and to stop donating to seperate but equal "fierce" advocates!!!!
Thank You
So forget all that and go harass some Mormons or something.