Obama on LGBT Rights: 'Where is Our Fierce Advocate?'

[Butterfly]

Obama on LGBT Rights: 'Where is Our Fierce Advocate?'
May 2, 2009


http://www.towleroad.com/2009/05/obama-on-lgbt-rights-where-is-our-fierce-advocate.html


Richard Socarides, who worked as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton for three years, and served at the White House for six during Clinton's administration, asks of Obama in a Washington Post column, where is the "fierce advocate" we were promised?

"As an adviser on gay rights to President Bill Clinton during his second term, I know how hard it is to achieve real progress. We learned that lesson acutely during Clinton's abortive first-term attempt to allow gays to serve in the military, an outcome for which he is still paying a steep legacy price. But recent victories on gay marriage, a youth-driven paradigm shift in public opinion and the election of our first African American president make this a uniquely opportune moment to act.

[Syne]

No real surprise but then again he has not been in office long. I knew that he would not be the biggest supporter of LGBT rights but better than the alternative.

Time to put the pressure onto the congress critters.

[tekla]

We are fighting two wars, neither of which are doing well, the economy is reeling like a punch drunk fighter after 15 rounds with the champ, the unemployment rate is huge, and the government is gutted by people who look to all the world, and anyone here like war criminals and people guilty of crimes against humanity, and what exactly is your problem that you want him to take care of?