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Photograph of President Obama at the Human Rights Campaign dinner by Manuel Balce Ceneta
Still, it's unclear whether his speech, shout-out to Lady Gaga and all, reassured the audience—and other gays and lesbians. The NY Times points out that he "failed to offer a timetable for [ending "don't ask, don't tell"] — an omission likely to inflame critics who say he is not fighting aggressively enough for gay rights."
The Washington Post notes that some in the gay and lesbian community are becoming impatient, "They accuse the president of putting their agenda on the back burner -- behind Wall Street regulation, health care, climate change and a series of foreign-policy issues. And although his sweeping rhetoric is appreciated, many are concerned that he has so far offered little beyond the symbolic and the incremental," on "don't ask, don't tell" as well as ending the Defense of Marriage act.
As for today's National Equality March, thousands are expected to take the Capitol for equal rights for the LGBT community. But Rep. Barney Frank, the openly gay Democrat from Massachusetts, told the AP that the march was "a waste of time at best," "The only thing they're going to be putting pressure on is the grass." Instead, he urged people to lobby their officials.
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The reference to Lady Gaga was used to fool us into believing this was a new speech, when in fact it was a rerun of a campaign speech.
I want him to just freakin do this. Of course I'd love for equal rights for everybody, but I think point I want him to do it just so he's done something he said he would.
ah crap I'm missing words, you get the idea.
I'm a firm believer that we either live in a country where everyone has the same rights or not. If not, then let's stop lying about how "free" this country is. The reality, as far as I see it, is that there is nothing in the Constitution that prohibits all people from having the same rights, unfortunately the Tenth Amendment confers rights unto the individual states which has been interpreted for too many years as saying states can discriminate if they so choose. An unfortunate interpretation.
Just do it already. This was a campaign promise, so if you catch shit from the right, you have a mandate: your election.
Just don't tell anyone you're gay, it's not like they're asking every soldier when they sign the contract... then there wont be any problems. I don't know what the big deal is.
I don't think it's a matter of not actually "telling." It's more a matter of making it "not that there's anything wrong with that." Under "don't ask, don't tell," gays can't even go out and have a date like straights do for fear of what would happen if anybody saw them.
Hello? Commander-in-chief?
This should have been done already.
I expect that 3 years from now people will still be saying "give him time"
So do you want a gay solider grabbing your crotch after you've been shot and dragging you by holding your belt/crotch area?
What a stupid thing to say.
While DADT doesn't exceptionally bother me policy-wise (after all, why must we push our differences, especially on something as private as our sexuality, on others?)
But the larger point is, regardless of which way you swing behind closed doors, it should not affect your job performance. And while the military is based on a "brotherhood" of sorts, we already have allowed females, and Abu Ghraib style exceptions aside, for the most part it seems to work.
Another issue where Obama relied on a demographic's vote to get into office but he is now only paying lip service to...I will believe it when it happens. Until then, this man is all talk and nothing else.