Posted on 10/13/2009 11:19:54 AM PDT by kingattax
President Obama delivered an unprecedented message to the Human Rights Campaign Saturday night. Sounding more like a homosexual activist than a sitting president, Obama went well beyond his expected message of “I’m here with you” on the homosexual agenda.
“My expectation is that when you look back on these years, you will see a time in which we put a stop to discrimination against gays and lesbians -- whether in the office or on the battlefield,” Obama told an estimated audience of 3,000. “You will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.”
Even Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese was stunned at the breadth of Obama's statement, calling it “something quite remarkable.”
"This was a historic night when we felt the full embrace and commitment of the President of the United States,” Solmonese said in a post-speech statement. “It’s simply unprecedented."
But Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, called the president's remarks “appalling.”
“Barack Obama is basically declaring that these relationships are basically equal to the real thing,” LaBarbera told CNSNews.com. “I think this is the ultimate Obama audacity play – for him, just declaring it seems to make it so.”
The president pointedly used the pronoun “we” – not “you” – throughout much of his speech.
“Do not doubt the direction we are headed and the destination we will reach,” Obama said at one point.
"For despite the real gains that we've made, there's (sic) still laws to change and there's (sic) still hearts to open,” the president said at another juncture.
Obama also talked about homosexual “families” – two men and children or two women and children.
“If we are honest with ourselves we'll admit that there are too many who do not yet know in their lives or feel in their hearts the urgency of this struggle. That's why I continue to speak about the importance of equality for LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered) families -- and not just in front of gay audiences,” Obama said.
The president said he and his wife Michelle had made a point of inviting homosexual “families” to the White House to participate in events like the Easter Egg Roll – “because we want to send a message.”
Obama noted that his administration had extended benefits to the domestic partners of homosexual federal workers and that he had appointed an open homosexual, John Berry, to serve as director of the federal Office of Personnel Management.
As expected, he also mentioned his support for a laundry list of homosexual activist issues, including bringing an end to the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuals serving in the military and overturning the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being between one man and more woman.
“I will end ‘Don’t ask, Don’t tell.’ That’s my commitment to you,” he said. But the president also characterized those who oppose the homosexual agenda in terminology reminiscent of last year’s presidential campaign, when then-candidate Obama, campaigning in Pennsylvania, referred to “bitter” residents of small-town America who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them.”
Obama told Saturday's event that there are still people "who hold fast to outworn arguments and old attitudes; who fail to see your families like their families; who would deny you the rights most Americans take for granted."
He ended by telling the story of a young man struggling with homosexuality -- "wrestling alone with a secret he’s held as long as he can remember.
“I believe the future is bright for that young person,” Obama added. "For while there will be setbacks and bumps along the road, the truth is that our common ideals are a force far stronger than any division that some might sow.”
LaBarbera said Obama's comments went far beyond using the presidency as a bully pulpit.
“The condescension is glaring," LaBarbera said. "He’s really putting down millions and millions of faithful, moral-minded citizens and dismissing traditional beliefs with such arrogance, it is almost indescribable. It really is amazing.”
“It's just hateful rhetoric,” LaBarbera added. “It’s a different kind of hate, to be sure, but it is hate – he hates our Judeo-Christian tradition.”
I will NEVER consider this AHOLE to be my President.
“You will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.”
NEVER.
You can pass all the freakin laws you want but you will NEVER force me to “admire” ‘accept” or agree that this is in anyway right and proper.
He shares equal contempt for everyone’s marriage. His daddy was a bigamist and his mother abandoned her children for globetrotting experiences.
“Obama: Homosexual Relationships ‘Just as Real and Admirable’ as Heterosexual Marriage”
‘Cept for the making babies part.
****He ended by telling the story of a young man struggling with homosexuality — “wrestling alone with a secret he’s held as long as he can remember. *****
Uh Uh!!!!!!!!!
Tawkin’ about hisseff agin?
Was there rimming involved?
two guys doing each other behind the Dry Cleaners who will never meet again is just as admirable as 2 loving individuals who have devoted their lives to each other?
nope.
I don’t even call him President. To me, he is nothing but a disgrace to the Presidency.
And when that happens, look to the sky ... for the fire and brimstone to fall!
You will be made to bow to the Obamessiah’s religion, comrade.
Seriously, this is a violation of church and state to “norm” sinful activity and force all to agree.
Hmmmm .... are you a "scanner jockey" by any chance?
Homos are just as admirable as heterosexual couples fornicating in public restrooms with random strangers
In the future, such a post as yours on a website will be punished by the State.
I’m not chastising you in the least, I agree with you.
Just making sure everyone understands what we’re going to face.
Here, I’ll commit my own hate crime:
Rom 1:26-27
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
New Headline: Obama Wins Eww! Award!!
Just when we thought he was a radical... geesh!
Are you kidding? Anybody can be a freakin breeder. Takes real character to embrace faggotry.
“Obama: Homosexual Relationships ‘Just as Real and Admirable’ as Heterosexual Marriage”
Well the jury is in. This man is no Christian.
nope, I don’t tap dance or hang out in library bathrooms either.
Obama:
“Look like we got us a country full of sows here instead of boars. Now I wants ya ta squeal America! Squeal like a pig!!! Weeeeeeeeee!”
America:
“Weeeeeee!!! Weeeeeeeeee!!!”
That's it then. A lisp will soon be a requirement to be a fed. Unless you have blackvoice.
Yeah, sure. Nothing wrong with a little poop on your privates. What a gross thing to say Mr Obama.
Someone at work joked this morning that this guy is the anti Christ. If he isn’t, he’s pretty damn close.
Yet, he didn’t actually DO anything. He just SAID it.
Is he speaking from experience?
except for the part of tapping your feet in airport bathroom stalls in hopes that the guy pooping next to you is into homo sex too.
NEVER.EVER.EVER.
I am not sure, but I think Obama just threw his own personal and religious views under the bus....
????
Scanner Jockey is (or used to be) somebody who listens to police radio using a “scanner” ...
I used to do that for years, before they all went digital and rendered most of my gear useless.
I used to hear a lot of calls about queers “doing it” in various semi-public places.
When homosexual activity is one of his favorite subjects, no one should be surprised at his actions.
Not THE anti-Christ,
but he IS anti Christ.
Gayest president ever
I wonder how many democrats have the conviction of a Christian conscience to stand against what Obama just said? How many voters did he just alientate and how many did he pander to? Will the GOP stuff its moist finger up into the air and whimper around this statement?
A story? Is that like when somebody goes to a shrink and says..."I have this friend...who...."
Sounds like Zero is ...um....speaking from personal experience.
Pray tell, what do you think those are?
Every day I pray that God would deliver us from this evil administration.
Like my bumper sticker says, “SOCIALIST CLOWN” with a picture of Obama as the joker. That is all he is, a JOKE.
Yep..everything seems to be accelerating,to be happening so fast now....I prayed in my car on the way to work the other morning for God to come soon...please...
I would never refer to this scum person as president either. He is a lowlife piece of trash.
BIDEN: No. Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage. We do not support that. That is basically the decision to be able to be able to be left to faiths and people who practice their faiths the determination what you call it.”
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OBAMA: Well, I think that “marriage” has a religious connotation in this society, in our culture, that makes it very difficult to disentangle from the civil aspects of marriage. And as a consequence it's almost — it would be extraordinarily difficult and distracting to try to build a consensus around marriage for gays and lesbians.
What we can do is form civil unions that provide all the civil rights that marriage entails to same sex couples. And that is something that I have consistently been in favor of. And I think that the vast majority of Americans don't want to see gay and lesbian couples discriminated against, when it comes to hospital visitations and so on.”
YOU LIE!
GG: Do you believe in sin?
OBAMA: Yes.
GG: What is sin?
OBAMA: Being out of alignment with my values.
GG: What happens if you have sin in your life?
OBAMA: I think it’s the same thing as the question about heaven. In the same way that if I’m true to myself and my faith that that is its own reward, when I’m not true to it, it’s its own punishment.
Well that explains it.
It will get worse. A lot worse, before the coming of the Son of Man.
Well the jury is in. This man is no Christian.
Has he picked out a church yet? Has he even gone to a service in DC since he’s been there?...
Obama did all he could to snuff out those babies.
In a word......
Yep!
Obama, from 2004:
In an interview with the Chicago Daily Tribune, Obama said, “I’m a Christian. And so, although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition, and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.”
Well, I’ll give Mr. Obama this: He is a superb panderer. Really superb.
what kind of code words did they use? was it a 929 or something?
So he's saying a pair of married fudgepackers is just as real as his marriage to Aunt Esther? Ouch, Michelle! That's gonna leave a mark!
Unless they are Republicans and then such scandal can be used to kick the GOP out of Congress and hand over the reigns to the Democrats.
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