When it comes to Democratic politicians, all but a few gay activists swoon when a politician in (or pursuing) power pays lip service to “gay rights” or “equality” or whatever is the gay leftist watchword of the day. And while they may grouse and they may grumble when that Democrat with soaring rhetoric fails to follow through on his campaign promise(s), that failure won’t dampen their enthusiasm. Recall how HRC refused to rescind its endorsement of Bill Clinton even after he signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996.
And now they’re all but tripping over themselves to sing President Obama’s praise despite that Democrat’s failure to follow through on his campaign promise to repeal Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell. Even the unhappy Barney Frank, supposedly an advocate for gay issues, has been so captivated by Obama’s charisma that he’s defending his party’s plan to go slow (i.e., ignore) action on that promise.
Former Vice President Cheney frank remarks on gay marriage further expose the Democrat’s mealy-mouthed record on gay issues (“equivalent rights” anyone?), some, including blogress Dr. Melissa Clouthier, are wondering why gays don’t get mad at Obama:
President Obama knows [gay marriage] is a political loser. So do gay activists. For the greater good, gay activists won’t push the President. They will hypocritically maintain their silence. They will be willingly silenced by the President because it serves the Democrat’s purpose.
Is anyone astonished and appalled at the hypocrisy around this issue? We shouldn’t be. The Left has a long record of political expedience around this and other social issues. Remember President Clinton’s treatment of women? Yeah. And they love, love, loved him!
To the gay left, it’s not about ideas, not about principles, not even about gay people, it’s all about keeping Democrats in power. And when those Democrats take power, all too many gay activists fawn on elected Democrats as do the mind-numbed peasantry in a monarchy no matter what abuse the monaarch heaps out.
At the close of this song, Deborah Kerr well describes how gay activists react to Democrats in power, always “bowing” and “kowtowing”:
President Obama knows [gay marriage] is a political loser. So do gay activists.
So THAT’s why gay activists, working in partnership with memebrs of the clergy, just got gay marriage through the New Hampshire legislature and are waiting for the governor to sign off, to make what, 6 states with gay marriage, several by legislation? Because it’s a political loser.
You know, it’s a shame the gay activists aren’t listening to you on how to advance gay causes. We might have made real progress if we had stayed silent, like you praised Mary Cheney for doing. Imagine all the progress we’ve had made if we just stayed home and kept our mouths shut!
They will hypocritically maintain their silence.
Yes, the loud criticism coming from Dan Savage, Cleve Jones, Jon Aravoisis, Pam Spaulding, etc against the president for his lack of progress on gay rights issues is all a figment of the Internet’s imagination. Again, thanks for insight – pointing out that what is really isn’t is a lost skill inow that the Bush administation is over.
Methinks someone’s sugar/caffeine intake has been a BIT high today.
Deborah Kerr looks like a Vulcan at 1:05. Whenever I’m afraid, I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune so no one will suspect…I’m erect.
I think liberals are merely relieved not to be governed by compassionate conservatives. Progress is the absence of evil.
#2 – Really? I thought it was due to lack of their daily Ritalin prescription.
Regards,
Peter H.
Yes, the loud criticism coming from Dan Savage, Cleve Jones, Jon Aravoisis, Pam Spaulding, etc against the president for his lack of progress on gay rights issues is all a figment of the Internet’s imagination.
All of whom have never once in their lives done anything other than exactly what the Obama Party told them to do and who have a track record a mile long of equivocating for anything and everything the Obama Party does.
Obama doesn’t need to worry about little lapdogs on leashes pretending to be tough. He knows that all he has to do is to pretend to walk away and they’ll be right back at his boots again, rolled over, begging for him to love them, they didn’t mean it, they really don’t expect him to do anything….
Furthermore, from Obama’s perspective, here’s what you have.
Cleve Jones: AIDS troofer.
John Aravosis: 9/11 troofer
Pam Spaulding: Antireligious bigot
Dan Savage: Says monogamy is “hurtful” and “stupid” and extols the value of three-ways and plural relationships for gays
He would probably win more points with repudiating them than he would with endorsing them.
You mean like Chairman Obama and the State-run Media trying to force the economy into recovery by popular vote? Or is it like liberals telling us that, while the economy is booming, we’re in a depression? Or that we’re in a worse economy than the Great Depression, even though it hasn’t been as bad as 1982. Or maybe like Chairman Obama telling us he’ll have nothing to do with running Government Motors.
I can go on, if you like.
NDT – Lordy, I didn’t know Aravosis is a 9/11 truther. He should know better.
Using musical comedy to attack the gay left–that’ll hit ’em where it hurts. How about Obama Mia! Here we go again–my, my, how can I resist ya?
Barney Frank didn’t want gay marriage to move fast 6 years ago. I don’t follow any party, only what a politician has done. Promises are meant to be broken. Gay marriage has been happening state by state without the help of Obama and his administration. It has been the hard work of all gay rights groups that is bringing CHANGE!
all that I read here about the left doesn’t surprise me as it springs, whether here in Australia, in the USA or anywhere, from a sense of unreality of the way the world simply works combined with a self-hatred complicated by an inflated ego and finished off with an envy of what others have achieved! here this mindset, while foaming at the mouth to divorce Australia from the last of what are only symbolic ties with England and its monarchy are, at the same time, only too eager to replace one colonial mental dependency with another via Al Gore and his global band of merry men!