Posted on 06/26/2008 8:24:38 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Michelle Obama speaks to gay Democrats
NEW YORK - Michelle Obama won a standing ovation on Thursday when she paid a campaign visit to gay and lesbian Democratic activists to promote her husband Barack Obama’s presidential quest.
Obama, appearing at a dinner meeting of the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Council of the Democratic National Committee, cited her husband’s efforts to fight discrimination and promote equal rights for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people.
She said he supported a complete repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which only recognizes marriages between men and women and upholds states’ rights not to honor same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. He also opposes a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward gays in the U.S. military and was against a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, she added.
He supports full family and adoption rights for gay and lesbian couples and believes the federal government should not stand in the way of states that opt for domestic partnerships, civil unions or civil marriage, she said. The Illinois senator opposes same-sex marriage.
“Barack believes that we must fight for the world as it should be, a world where together we work to reverse discriminatory laws like DOMA and ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’” she said. “The world as it is should be one that rejects discrimination of all kinds.”
Her husband also has called for a renewed effort to fight HIV and AIDS and has said the African-American community should overcome homophobia, she said.
“Nothing we have to do over the next four or eight years is going to be easy. There will be powerful forces who believe that things should stay just as they are, that everything is fine, and that’s where you all come in,” she said.
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Did she mention anything about closing the bath houses?
“Nothing we have to do over the next four or eight years is going to be easy”
Read those words carefully people. They are convinced in their ego that they not only have this election won but they have 2012 won as well.
Keep it up Michele!
THe MAJORITY of rational people are AGAINST this crap.
I wonder if she spoke about Larry Sinclair.
LOL
Gay means happy. They are homosexuals. Isn’t homosexual democrat a redundancy?
Go for it Michelle..and Barack ol boy..shut your mouth about anyone who mentions anything that your angry wife spouts..she puts herself out there so she is fair game..get used to it.
Ck this out! An Obama delegate in Congress “glad” that terrorists have had a chance to identify an aid of VP Cheney on TV.
“Barack believes that we must fight for the world as it should be..... A world were homos lick each other were they pee, and the result is a family... bestowed by the left PC.
Who are we to judge? Let them be...Who is God, to deny them reproductivity?”
I’m soooo glad that she did this. It’s going to be used against Obama. The homosexual agenda is disgusting to most people. I bet a lot of Democrats don’t approve of it either.
...meanwhile, Democrat operatives were frantically trying to stuff something into Michelle's mouth--(it looked like a sock)--and were heard muttering something like: "...taqiyya and kitman until after the election, Michelle...!"
**she puts herself out there so she is fair game..get used to it.**
Mrs. (”I’m proud to be an American for the 1st time in my life” )should also talk to her liberal “whitey” friends as well.
And of course, I am ready to be called a racist.
Talk about chasing a niche vote. Hope this gets lots of play so the other 99% of us can see what the Obamas are all about.
Is she really going to win votes in that arena that wouldn't go Dem anyway?
What if Barry himself had made an appearance (cracklin’ gaydar!)
B. Hussein Speaks, yet his lips never move.
They should have called Slick.
Aren't all democrats gay?
She wants to make sure that what happened to Mrs. McGreevey doesn’t happen to her in the White House, if she gets there in the first place! :-(
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