What Full Equality, Quite Frankly, Will Require: White House

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What Full Equality, Quite Frankly, Will Require: White House
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
July 6, 2010 9:30 AM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/07/white_house_what_full_equality_quite_frankly_will.php


The interview at the White House with Melody Barnes last week lasted over an hour. The full transcript would be quite long and quite dense, so I've broken it into a series of more digestible pieces.

These are quite revealing, I think, about the thinking going on in the White House about the LGBT community.

For example, who is it, quite frankly, that is responsible for equality legislation not moving forward?

I use the term "quite frankly" both because it is a term used by Melody Barnes in her answer to one of the questions that I am discussing today, and because the term signals a step up in the level of candor of the speaker. It is used to note that, although what the speaker has previously said is true enough, what is about to come is perhaps a bit disturbing but said in the name of frankness.