(No) progress on gay rights: What's Obama waiting for?
Philly.com
July 3, 2009


http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20090703__No__progress_on_gay_rights__What_s_Obama_waiting_for_.html


As we celebrate the 233rd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and its still-unfulfilled promise of equal rights, members of the military continue to be bounced because they're gay. The Obama Justice Department defended the indefensible Defense of Marriage Act in court last month by seemingly comparing gay marriage to incest and child sexual abuse. Hate-crimes legislation and protections against discrimination in employment still are just hopes, not actual change.

The president promised the 250 leaders of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities that "by the time this administration is over . . . you guys will have pretty good feelings about the Obama administration." Whatever happened to the "fierce urgency of now"?

In case Obama fails to repeal DOMA in his first term I understand very well that people feel that he has betroyed them and do not vote him again.

DOMA is hardly an issue to determine a President.

That's up to Congress to repeal or modify, not Obama.