--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stan...@...> wrote: <snip> > Gay BLT Americans aren't feeling quite so warm and > fuzzy about Obama right now:
Excerpt from a diary on DailyKos by a now- former Obama supporter (far from the only one such, BTW, and many of them by straight people): ----- ...President Obama, through his Department of Justice, has just sold us down the river. Sold us out. Just like any other lying, cheating politician, Obama has shown his true colors. HIS ADMINISTRATION DEFENDED DOMA TODAY. Defended it. On the anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia decision [ending race-based restrictions on marriage], they DEFENDED IT.... ...HE USED EVERY SINGLE RIGHT-WING TALKING POINT. Every. Single. One. The incest argument. The "marrying children" argument. The molestation argument. The "well, they have the right to marry a person of the opposite sex, just like anyone else" argument. The "gays don't have a right to sexual privacy" argument. AND THEY SAID DOMA IS CONSTITUTIONAL. I can't forgive that. Strategic or not, I can't forgive those things. GLBTs have worked so hard and for so long to overcome these blatantly bigoted stereotypes, and now the Obama DOJ puts them right back up there and affirms every one of them. This brief undercuts all the major arguments in Lawrence and in Loving. ALL of them. Right to sexual privacy? Gone. Right to marriage? Gone. Constitutional protection? Gone (and did we ever even have that?). That's not justifiable. Once burned, twice shy. I'm not voting for him in 2012. I can't trust our President anymore, and I'll be covering my Obama stickers on my car up as soon as possible, since they won't peel off. Change you can believe in, huh? Not if you're GLBT, I guess. ----- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/12/174323/602
