The Nibbler-In-Chief Promises To Keep On Nibbling
Filed by: Rebecca Juro
June 23, 2010 7:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/06/the_nibbler-in-chief_promises_to_keep_on_nibbling.phpAs with his Pride Month Proclamation a few weeks ago, President Obama yesterday lauded the minor incremental baby steps his administration has taken to protect a relative handful of LGBT Americans while relegating the workplace rights of the vast majority of our community who do not work for the federal government in some capacity to the Democratic Party's back burner. In concert with his Pride Month Proclamation, Obama chose not to mention the Employment Non-Discrimination Act by name in his speech to LGBT activists and media celebrities at the White House yesterday, instead saying only that "We are pushing hard to pass an inclusive employee non-discrimination bill. No one in America should be fired because they're gay. It's not right, it's not who we are as Americans, and we are going to put a stop to it."
Since the President had no trouble mentioning the other pro-LGBT initiatives his administration supports by name and with the actual steps the Administration is taking to see them enacted, it's clear that he's decided to gloss over the fact that despite all of their promises to the contrary the other 99.999% of the LGBT American workforce are being thrown under the bus yet again by a Democratic Party which continues to refuse to show real leadership on the issues that matter most in the lives of LGBT Americans when it presents even the slightest difficulty or inconvenience to the Party or its members, regardless of whether or not it's an election year.
