Will Obama be Truman on Gay Rights? (BARF ALERT)

Real Clear Politics (via yahoo) ^ | 6/11/2009 | David Paul Kuhn

[markomalley]

In June, 2008, Michelle Obama came to Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria for a fundraiser with wealthy gay Democrats and spoke of civil rights struggles "from Selma to Stonewall."

Nearly one year later, gay rights issues have taken on a renewed prominence. Recent shifts in states from Iowa to New Hampshire have upped the tally to six states that now recognize same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, California's high court recently upheld a voter-approved proposition blocking gay marriage. And on Monday, the Supreme Court denied a request to review the Pentagon's ban on gays serving openly in the military.

Quiet at the center of this storm is Barack Obama.

Gay rights activists have noticed. Their patience has worn thin. Key leaders have privately expressed their frustration to top White House officials. Publicly, over the weekend, one gay rights activist proposed a march on Washington in October.

To the gay rights movement, the collage of issues is beginning to echo the crescendo of the civil rights movement in the mid 1960s. But, on social hot button issues, this is a cautious president. Obama is for now more similar to the slow-walk of John F. Kennedy than the bold action of Lyndon Johnson on civil rights, whose hand was in part forced by events like the march on Washington led by Martin Luther King Jr.

That Obama is the first black president adds one more deep and evocative layer to the decisions before him. By comparison, the choices Obama now faces are far less politically fraught than the battle Harry Truman or Johnson experienced.

[markomalley]

Yuch. I cannot understand why any race or ethnicity can tolerate the attempt to equate a sexual perversion with their physical traits. I certainly don't understand why some who make themselves spokesmen of those races / ethnic groups even endorse this equation.

[xcamel]

Truman Capote?

[IbJensen]

Truman made a lot of mistakes and ran government like a haberdashery for some reason, but he wasn't a homosexual.

Not so sure there aren't homosexual tendencies lurking in Oboma's freaky head.

[clee1]

The difference: Blacks equaled 10-12% of the population in the early 1960’s; Gays are less than 1% of the population today.

[Zakeet]

Coincidentally, from this week's supermarket tabloid, The Globe:

Michelle Obama Baby Bombshell!
New baby will end prez gay scandal she vows

FURIOUS Michelle Obama insists a new baby will silence - once and for all - a controversial writer who claims he had a gay fling with the President, insiders say. GLOBE brings you the exclusive word on the First Lady's pregnancy shocker.
It's must reading for every American.

---

So now you Freepers know.

Larry Sinclair is a creation of the radical right.

All questions are answered and this story is now over.

[SharpRightTurn]

If Michelle MaBelle is pregnant, it must have been by Rahm. Zero is too busy destroying America to have time for that.

[From The Deer Stand]

Obama and Carrie Prejean agree on gay marriage yet Obama gets a pass and Prejean gets the shaft. Didn’t see that untalented and moronic Perez Hilton throw a hissy fit over Obama’s stance on gay marriage. Goes to show that Liberals defend Liberals regardless of what they believe.

[ReformationFan]

“Yuch. I cannot understand why any race or ethnicity can tolerate the attempt to equate a sexual perversion with their physical traits. I certainly don’t understand why some who make themselves spokesmen of those races / ethnic groups even endorse this equation.”

Exactly. I wonder how this kind of viewpoint(”homosexual sex acts are the same thing as having black skin”) goes over with the average Nigerian or Botswanan.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Another difference is that racial and ethnic minorities are easily identifiable. Women are easily identifiable too. But homosexuals have to declare that they are homosexual. If they don’t declare that, there’s no way to single them out.