At LGBT conference leaders warn against too much focus on marriage over other is

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The American Independant


At LGBT conference leaders warn against too much focus on marriage over other issues


By Sofia Resnick | Monday, January 30, 2012 at 10:42 am

http://www.americanindependent.com/209998/at-lgbt-conference-leaders-warn-against-too-much-focus-on-marriage-over-other-issues

This weekend approximately 3,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists descended upon Baltimore, Md., for a national advocacy conference, while a few miles away the Republican branch of Congress — which consistently resists pro-LGBT policies – gathered for a retreat.

Despite an absent House (Democrats were also at a retreat in Cambridge, Md.), about 300 of those LGBT activists occupied the Capitol last Thursday for the first federal lobby day associated with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's 24th annual Creating Change conference. The Senate was still in session.

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This weekend approximately 3,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists descended upon Baltimore, Md., for a national advocacy conference, while a few miles away the Republican branch of Congress — which consistently resists pro-LGBT policies – gathered for a retreat.

From  2009 to 2011, the Democrats held a supermajority in Congress and control of the Executive branch, and yet few, if any, "pro-LGBT policies" were enacted into law.

So who really "resisted" when they had the opportunity to pass anything they wanted to?