Last year, at a fundraiser for the Human Rights Campaign (a lobbying organization for LGBT Americans) President Obama said:
“We don’t believe in a small America. We don’t believe in the kind of smallness that says it’s okay for a stage full of political leaders — one of whom could end up being the president of the United States — being silent when an American soldier is booed. We don’t believe in that. We don’t believe in standing silent when that happens. We don’t believe in them being silent since. You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it’s not politically convenient.”
Despite these remarks, Obama has remained silent on his position on gay marriage, claiming that it is still “evolving.”
Two months ago, Obama cashed in on good will in the gay community, making more than $1.4 million at a fundraiser held at the home of two D.C.-area lesbians. At the fundraiser, he reportedly “promised to ‘keep on pushing’ for equal rights but did not discuss gay marriage.” U.S. News reported that the president remarked,
“The work that we’ve done with the LGBT community, I think, is just profoundly American,” Obama said. “You should be judged on the merits. That’s at the heart of the American dream. That’s how you should be judged, not by what you look like, not by how you worship, not by where you come from, not by who you love.”
Eight weeks later, it seems the president doesn’t really care about gay Americans being judged on their merits as employees of the federal government. As Alana discussed earlier, the New York Times reports that the president has refused to sign a new executive order banning discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender people working for or seeking employment from federal contractors. Statements from the Human Rights Campaign and the Center for American Progress made clear that the gay community’s disappointment is palpable enough to be aired publicly.
While Obama has touted his repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” it appears that he is only willing to fight for the right of LGBT Americans to fight and die for their country, not work for it. The president’s refusal to support same-sex marriage has plagued his relationship with the far Left, which apparently held the hope that Obama wasn’t the politician he has shown himself to be. Inexplicably, his silence on human rights abuses against gays worldwide hasn’t been a source of trouble for an Obama campaign relying heavily on gay donor support. This latest refusal to take a stand for “gay rights” outside of fundraisers could (and should) seriously impact the president’s appeal to a far Left base that campaigned and fundraised heavily for him during the 2008 cycle.
Meanwhile, some of those photos on the internet the Obama's cannot quite get rid of, photos of Obama and a few of his friends… and this persistent wasting disease of Obama's…
Should the government make anyone respect anyone? Is this its proper function? Is anyone harming the rights of anyone else when he says: "sorry, don't like you." "Sorry, because I don't like you, I refuse to contract with you." "I don't like you; therefore, we can't work together." etc. etc. Is it beyond any person's right not to like a person or even – i know, its terrible – an entire group of people? Withholding is not a form of abuse, unless you're a parent. Is everyone supposed to become everyone's parent?
As a child, Obama went to school in Indonesia and was surrounded by people who had faith in Islam. Later in life, he was friends with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who have faith in an atheistic religion–Marxism. Subsequently, Obama went to the church of Reverend Wright, who had faith as well–in the evil of Jews, among other things. nWhatever one's faith, be it religious or Marxist, those who believe without questioning are always anti-gay.
Not all people with same sex attraction put themselves in the orthodox LGBT camp. "Believing WITH questioning," should lead to approving gay marriage? If everything is just Nature (the alternative ""unquestioning belief" for most American intellectuals), then there is just "what is (Nature) is right." Human behavior is simply animal behavior. Anything goes. However, I don't think g_jochnowitz would agree with that. On what basis? Questioning or unquestioning belief? Are orthodox Christians like me, along with orthodox Jews and others, "believing with questioning"? No, but we do believe that the Creator knows what is best for us human beings.
It is the Creator of the Universe who gave us homosexuality, since according the theory of evolution, it should have disappeared at once. It doesn't lead to reproduction.
Just curious, but how does one make any argument citing "the Creator of the Universe" and "the theory of evolution" in the same sentence, except when arguing against one or the other. They are mutually exclusive arguments.
I'd lay some long odds that Obama is ok with gay marriage but keeps his mouth shut not to get ahead of himself politically. In one way that's understandable. In another it's despicable, suppressing what you believe is a fundamental right, a civil right, for political prudence.
@Willmoore, the issue discussed in the article is not that of the government mandating non-discrimination against gays among completely private citizens. The issue is the government continuing to give money and provide work to contractors who discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. Those contractors are still free to not hire gay people as a matter of law, they federal government would simply no longer pay them to do so.