I should know, some of them are my own relatives from different states of the south.

We already know about the bad southerners. There are good southern people too. Why don’t you mention them?

At age 76, I qualify as “elderly” and I am NOT “mad, hateful, and pissed” that Obama won. I voted for him and rejoiced when he did win. If you had said “some” elderly people, I would have agreed with you, but there are a lot of us out here who don’t fit your stereotype.

I believe that you are refering to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. That is how I am going to refer to her.

The people who work every day in Congress are more aware of whether something like DOMA will get sufficient votes and pass in this Congress where the health care debate, the economy and the war in Afghanistan are the largest topics of the day than those who have not spent one working day there. Health care alone (I heard on TV during the debates) is about a sixth of the total US economy.

Barney Frank listed DADT repeal as by this doable amongst other gay issues he mentioned that he would take on as he believed the votes were there for them, whereas DOMA wasn’t quite there yet.

DOMA of course is the crown jewel at it is the legal rationale behind so many other federal level antigay laws. Once you do away with the federal level of DOMA, the rest like no federal recognition of foreign and domestic marriage equality from our border, airport and seaport customs booths, to our social security administration, and everything else of a federal nature would soon be cleaned up.

“Enough about me. What do you think of my *dress*?!”

People who can’t put down their own agenda long enough to see an important bigger picture are part of what’s wrong with American political discourse today.

1) Health care reform is a huge issue that affects everyone, including gay people, and 2) Putting a monkey wrench into the Infuriated-Anti-Government-Racist-Hate approach that the far Right is using right now can only *help* the gay-rights movement in the long right.

It’s connected. Being so myopic about gay rights hurts us more than helps us, IMO.

I guess if this story proves anything, it proves that people will rise to protest whatever they can. A person in a high position in the government calls for personal responsibility and the overwhelming reaction is to call her names. What a sad state of affairs.

Also, I sincerely want to know why it wasn’t appropriate to bring up the political and social climate that helped lead to the assassinations Harvey Milk and George Moscone. So Pelosi isn’t personally repealing DADT and DOMA as I write these words. Does that really mean she’s completely worthless to GLBT people. If so… my goodness… what hope is there for this “community?”

igub, you make no sense.

I do wonder why America is so hateful towards the president, but then again, he is a black man, who is running the country. Most of “White America” are racist. Before you bite my head off at that comment, you have to realize that the elderly people still living cannot believe that the election happened fairly. They are mad, and hateful, and pissed that the country is being run by a “BLACK MAN.”

I grew up in the south, and there still are people down here that hate minorities, and shoot and kill people because their skin color is darker. I date interracially, and prefer black men, but I have also been chased down for the person I was dating, and called all sorts of names by people, much less some of them were gay. It’s a terrible thing that happens here in the south, and although it happens in other places around the country, they’re still dumb people down south. Anyways, this has nothing to do with the story, so sorry for speaking my mind.