Gay Rights Group Tells President Obama That His Pro-DOMA Legal Brief Caused LGBT Community Pain

All of Obama’s promises come with an expiration date!

In the age of social media, JSol’s letter was a typical embarassment for Queer communities — please, let’s stop acting like LGBTQ are a cohesive group who get many of each other’s issues! For three days, Twitter and Facebook and blogs have seethed over the DOMA brief; and only now the fattest DC organization supposedly representing us responds? And with a rhetorical mealy-mouthedness totally out of touch with the level of anger and the urgency of matters?
Newsflash, JSol: homophobia enshrined in law kills many times an hour! We’re well past the time for pleading.

I can understand having to, even choosing to, defend DOMA as a federal law that is on the books. But the language, the word choices, of the comparisons was just so unnecessary. The same arguments could have been made just as well without those, and that is what is so bothersome because it makes it seem like he is as chin-deep in the same prejudices as the people who actually did the writing of it. His name is ultimately on it, and at best no-one is paying attention to what his administration is saying about us and what gets said by our leaders does matter.

I can understand having to, even choosing to, defend DOMA as a federal law that is on the books. But the language, the word choices, of the comparisons was just so unnecessary. The same arguments could have been made just as well without those, and that is what is so bothersome because it makes it seem like he is as chin-deep in the same prejudices as the people who actually did the writing of it. His name is ultimately on it, and at best no-one is paying attention to what his administration is saying about us and what gets said by our leaders does matter.

I have to stand for the traditional marriage view. Has the LGBT community considered about the right of the people hold traditional marriage view for a few thousand years???? They don’t. The LGBT community needs to find a name other than marriage to define their one-on-one partnership. Please don’t try to ‘STEAL’ ‘marriage’ from us that it has been used for thousands years by the heterosexual society to educate theri children for the covenant relationship between a man and a woman. Who is intruding who’s right?????

“then we might as well vote for our pocketbooks and go with the Republicans. The Democrats will be in big trouble if they lose the funding and support of the GLBT community that they have taken for granted for so long.”
While the Democrats stand to lose the support of the LGBT community there is no way the Republicans then gain that support as the Republican party platform is openly hostile to the LGBT community.
More likely that support shifts to the Green Party.

“The Dems are no different than the GOP”
While the Democrats can hardly crow about their stands for LGBT rights, the GOP actively works against those rights from protection against discrimination to marriage to adoption.

Obama is a liar, just like Bush! Wake up!

I am tired off yall complaining, Obama
won’t do this or that. Every time I turn the tv or read the paper Obama have
not done anything for gay rights yet is tthat the only reason you voted for him. I need a job and insurance and that
needs to be his main focus right now.
The president also need to focus on our
safety. I wish you would give him time
he will get don’t ask don’t tell, he
has only been in office 5 months.

One thing that is not understood –there are many thousands of voters who consider the right for gays to marry as one of the most important changes needed in this country, and we are not gay. For any polititian who thinks it is only the gays that are dissapointed in Obama’s stance is a fool. After what the republicans did to our economy, education, and health care during the Bush years, it would take alot for me to vote republican, but I will vote for any party that views all citizens as having equal rights.

The Obama administration is behind the curve by about 100 miles on GLYB issues. Over 70% of Americans (including 56% of conservatives) favor ending the ban on gay soldiers in the military. That’s overdue.
As many straight people as gay ones are discouraged by his failure to show leadership in these transformative days for GLTB rights. Either we all have rights or none of us have.
It’s past time for him to step up.

please. least important issue of the day..week…year or millenium.

“Can two gay men or two lebian women ensure Posterity mentioned in the Preamble? Answer is resounding ‘no’, for they (married or not) cannot produce children as descendants.”
Spare us your medieval philosophical theories. Next are you going to try and discriminate against heterosexual couples who can’t have kids and adopt instead?

I don’t understand how “traditional” marriage is threatened here. There is no law that would impair the ability of a man and a woman to marry. If somehow the thought that of a gay marriage is enough to destroy a “traditional” marriage, then maybe that marriage should never have happened.
But I don’t care any more. This is not a free country. The equal protection clause doesn’t apply to me. The full faith and credit clause does not apply to me. Our “freedom of religion” doesn’t apply to me, because gay marriage would be an illegal religious ceremony in my state. Apparently I suffer all the penalties of the law but receive none of its benefits.
Something snapped in me. I don’t care about these issues any more. I don’t care about America any more. I would rather just leave.

Excuse me. Gay here, and I do vote republican. And I’m not the only one.
I wouldn’t count on Obama for anything good.

I did vote for Obama and he is in the wrong here.
He needs to get rid of DOMA & DADT. I believe he will get around to this I just don’t know when, it’s a basic issue of equal rights.

” I wish you would give him time.”
Obama has time enough to attack the gay community but not time enough to honor his promises?
Folks like this remind me of an abused dog who waits in doorway, tail wagging, even when there’s no hope of affection from an abusive owner.
New rule: no spine, no vote, no money. Would must rather have an honest but hostile Republican in power.

OBAMAS BETRAYAL OF TRUST***Yes We Can if you are STR8… No you can’t if you are GAY! It is so sad that he just decided to tell us to sit at the back of the bus. The fact of an electorate to have trust in him to bring integrity to the White House is going down the drain with this one. I had worked tirelessly on his campaign even though I heard that a closeted friend of his said he did not support the gays. I am so sad that his true colors are coming out, literally and they are not pink or purple, Barack has found himself colorblind to our lives, our existence and our meaning of life. Are we not allowed life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When one qualifies another’s happiness as not worthy, there is something wrong! The cancer of hate is eating away at the hope that began this presidency… I wonder if this slide will continue or if he will see the light of day and realize this wrong for what it is, a dark hateful piece of legislation. To let this legislation continue is a crime against our common humanity. Each one of us dies a little more… because of it, str8, gay, human being…

Not that presidents breaking their promises is anything new, but it’s hard not to feel betrayed here. It’s nice to know Obama’s promises only count when they are convenient.

The gay community might have just as well put their support behind the former Miss California.

I’m surprised that gays are surprised at the Obama Administration’s stance. He told you during the campaign that he didn’t support gay marriage. I guess gays and lesbians wanted to believe that it was something he was saying that was going to change magically once he was in office. Considering the homophobia in the black subculture and considering Reverand Wright’s stance and his church’s stance on gays, this was entirely predictable. Of course, during the primaries, you could have voted for Clinton who actually voted AGAINST DOMA. Oh well…..

MisElanious — marriage is a civil right in this country because our laws are written in such a way that other rights depend on it. See: social security, tax law, and especially immigration. (We are losing smart people because they cannot live here with their foreign-born partners — I know several who have reluctantly left the US for their partners’ more welcoming countries of birth. These are people our country paid to educate, etc., and we are shooting ourselves in the foot by essentially making them leave.)
I can get “married” now — plenty of churches are happy to have me. What I can’t get is the legal benefits of marriage. It’s ironic that our supposedly secular government is more hung up on a few lines of the Bible than the church I was raised in is.

It’s too bad, but I still have high hopes for future changes. Politics is so frustrating sometimes.

Tired Dem: I think your analysis of the politicians positions on this issue is very accurate. I am on the other side of the debate but I too think the politicians use the issue as a game to generate support and votes among their constituents.