By coming out of the closet in the heartland. Why is marriage in California the priority? All our resources should go to support gays born in the Bible Belt. Coming out is the way to change the political math for both parties.

I voted for McCain because he helped to kill Bush’s Federal Marriage Amendment. Did he get any credit for that? Did Sarah Palin get any credit for vetoing an anti-gay bill in Alaska?

As for Obama — what part of “pull down your pajamas … [BLEEP] … now get dressed and get lost” is so hard to understand?

Yes, in several respects.

You see, Molly, none of us really believe that you support gay rights in any fashion, given how willing you are to throw them away for your Obama Party massas. You’re merely an anti-Republican bigot who uses “gay rights” as a smokescreen.

Have some respect for the law. The reason Proposition 8 lost was simple; people realized that gays were just pushing antireligious bigotry and hate. That’s why gay liberals were calling black people “niggers”. That’s why gay liberals were mailing white powder to and vandalizing churches. That’s why gay liberals were demonstrating and trying to get people fired from their jobs for making a simple political contribution. It had nothing to do with rights or benefits; it had everything to do with antireligious jihad. Even the head of No on 8 was bragging and blabbering at meetings that marriage was an outdated and worthless “patriarchal institution”.

that’s so funny i’ve got to be thanking you.

thanks

But all those years in Rev. Wright’s church combined with the African-American vote that carried Prop. 8 to victory in California after Obama voiced the same position during the sit-down with Rick Warren should have given the gay left a hint that there was a strong chance that of all the special interest groups that were part of the coalition and which Obama normally is loathe to challenge, theirs would be the ones he threw under the bus first.

The community that Obama came out of is one of the least supportive of gay rights, and Obama was never likely to buck them right off the bat, no matter what he believes personally, out of fears of losing more votes than he’d gain out of some of the other groups (even if gays may have donated more $$$ to Obama-Biden than African-Americans in 2008, the latter group has more votes) and strategically as a way to show that Barack Obama isn’t enthralled to special interest groups.

Except when he is, of course.

It’s the grassroots centre. The ones who’d vote for the GOP if it weren’t over-run by theocrats, the way that the DNC is over-run with utopian idealists. But i don’t have to tell Log cabiners about the opposition they face in their own party, do I?

Don’t fall for the spin the WH is putting on this.

Disclaimer: I’m Australian, and have no dog in this hunt. I just calls em how I sees em.

Come on over to the “dark side” – as the T-Shirt says, we have cookies!

But I’m not, except for the white thing, the bible thing, the gun thing, the trailer thing and the Southerner thing.

Homophobic?? Used to be and might still be a little. It just seems to be crammed in my face at every turn and that turns me off to the whole concept of it.

But I will cave on the Civil Unions. Love is love I guess. Hey, it’s a big step for me. Don’t jump my shit!!

Homosexuals and lesbians are tools of the Democrat party. Always have been and always will be. Just like the Blacks and Hispanics in this Country. Until y’all wake up.

Join the Rethuglicans! Or better yet, let’s start the Conservative Party. Hell, we can do better than the choices we have now.

You DO realize that it’s 2009 now, not 1996, right? It’s ridiculous to assume that supporting the repeal of DADT would have any measurable impact on Obama’s future political capital. The suport for this policy is not the same now as it was 14 years ago. The vast majority of the public want DADT repealed and that includes the conservative public. So how do you expect the right to use repeal of this out dated policy (that even a large percentage of miltary brass see as pointless in today’s world) as some kind of battering ram against Obama and his agenda. Your assumptions are based on your belief that the majority of the right still supports DADT and that just simply isn’t true.

Mark has apparently confused this blog with an HRC dinner where Barack Obama is the keynote speaker.

It’s anybody’s guess how long it will last, though.

There, bnl. I made you handy little form you can use for the rest of Obama’s Presidency. Just fill in the blank, i.e., “3 years, 11 months, 29 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds”.

“Politician: derived from the Greek poly, meaning many, and tick, a small blood-sucking parasite.”

Sarah Palin is still far better qualified on day one than Obama is today. Gays ought to consider voting for a libertarian as opposed to a democrat. Won’t be any worse off than where they are and perhaps the democrats will respect them and not take them for granted if they ever come to their senses. Indeed if there really is a republican emergence arising it will be the small government libertarian get out of my life and pockets type that will come to fore. RINO’s no one wants or needs. The lesser of the two evils just doesn’t cut it anymore.