The challenge to the antigay DADT ban was rejected by the US Supreme Court. That is breaking news at this moment, the headline from the online Washington Post newspaper at this moment. Just another message that the gay soldier in the trenches is still a second-class citizen who is not suppose to love, to date, to marry another adult of his or her own gender. Unlike in Canada where gay Canadian military personel can and do marry another office of their own gender.

FUCK OBAMA.

He wont listen to us begging for our rights its time we show him that we can be a threat. It is time we start demanding our rights.

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/06/signorile-palm-center-source-backs-bellini-claims-on-hrc-deal.html

But not a damn thing for us. No support for, say, a repeal of DADT to take effect in two years. No support to repeal DOMA and leave marriage to the states (which wouldn’t change anything anywhere in the South, thanks). Obama has shown respect and compassion for people across the country and across the planet. Except us. Now, if he were to do something as simple as make a speech at some gay dinner, and say that no, he wasn’t pushing on gay stuff yet, because the economy takes precendence, then that would be him acknowledging the absence of movement but not an absence of support (still fishy, but plausible). Nope, can’t do that. Of course, when it comes to cockblocking any political love for gays, Nancy Pelosi has been Obama’s wingman, and she needs to come under scrutiny too. But right now the issue is Obama, and for all the things he’s done, he refuses to resolve the primary civil rights issue of our time. Anyone who sees him as a master politician would do well to remember that Lyndon Johnson was a dirty S.O.B., and Johnson’s legacy was marred by Vietnam, but Johnson put his political soul into passage of the Civil Rights Act. He predicted the hit the Democrats would take for leading the charge on civil rights, and he was correct. (The GOP took advantage and picked up voters who wanted to keep segregation. This is something to brag about?) Johnson saw that history would excoriate him for not doing his all to see the Civil Rights Act passed. Obama acts as if honor and morality are simply yoked to politics in the here and now. He seems completely blind to time’s ability to reach a different and harsh judgement of those who refuse to do the right thing, and our rights are very much the right thing.

We do not need Obama to achieve our equality. DOMA and DADT will eventually be repealed, definitely in my lifetime (I’m 41). We have money and power to advocate for ourselves, and we are doing so. We’re bruised from fighting, and it would be nice if our “friend” could bestir himself to at least get us some Gatorade, but we’ll get through without him. I suspect that history will judge Obama more harshly on gay issues than it will Shrub, because Obama presents himself as so enlightened, where Shrub…hell, you know. It’s easier to forgive ignorance than it is to overlook a conscious gesture to deny equality to any Americans.

Equality a “Pet Issue?”

WOW, these Obama-kins are really brain washed. Scary!