Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate of any state in the entire country.

Southern states talk a good game on family, yet incarceration and divorce are both FAR more common in the South than arguably any other part of the country. I appreciate Sears’ desire to reduce the number of divorces–who doesn’t? It’s not a long leap to see the good in churches requiring marriage classes, because it’ll save a lot of grief in the long run.

My issue comes with Sears affiliating herself with an organization which has questionable goals. It’s nice to advocate for marriage–but what about those who are entirely locked out of civil marriage? I don’t yet see Sears speaking to this. You may be right, we might not have seen what she really thinks, but she herself has said that being on the bench limits her ability to present an opinion (unless she morphs into Antonin Scalia).

Trace, you moved from Cincinnati to suburban Atlanta. I moved from Nashville to Cleveland. I know the systems you know, the institutional limits at either end (and you know that Cleveland is unquestionably the most liberal corner of Ohio). But when I see somebody advocate for marriage in the abstract, without acknowledging that some aren’t allowed to drink from that fountain or sit in that row, then I have to question whether you’re maybe being too generous.

I’m open to convincing, and I may yet owe an apology for my perspective on Sears. As the song says, this ain’t a scene, it’s an arms race, and I don’t feel like goin’ in and just assuming the best.

So, why did over 600,000 people die in the Civil War if individual states are entitled to set their own rules and trump the US Constitution? What a waste that was.

By the way, I wonder how Black people would feel if Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears was White and she belonged to a club that was founded by a man, and supported by other members, who still debate the merits of segregation and who argue for bans on interracial marriage? Yes, how supportive would Black people be of a White Segregationist Obama who considered such a person for a seat on the US Supreme Court?

…Oh, but I forgot, we are supposed to be more open-minded (deluded) when “benign” bigots spit in OUR faces. And, as many apologists in the GLBT community tell us, that kind of spittle is good for our complexions– besides, we should be grateful for any kind of attention paid to us anyway.

Jeeze…save us all from the fools who think that just because you can make lemons into lemonade that you can make sh*t into chocolate.

She attends every (not most) but every gay function that she is invited too.

Sorry boys and girls. Can not sit here while this fine woman is disparaged. As earlier mentioned, I’m not sure why she is being pointed out as being anti-gay. The simple fact is that we could as for no better of a jurist on our issues.

Anyone needing to know this woman’s true record merely needs to access ajc.com or southervoice.com

sounds like racism and discrimination to me…

Steal from one to raise up another, still leaves one lower. sad.

I’m already considering my vote next election, not sure Obama is working to EARN it.

Nonetheless, I will patiently wait until next election, because I still have “hope” that he will do the right thing(s).

I’m not certain what it is but something is a bit fishy here in that someone is trying to turn gay folk against a friend.

Such irony that a formerly oppressed minority would take the side of upholding the anti-christian, high moral crime of discrimination and favor keeping a fellow minority “in their place”.

To paraphrase Jesus “what-the-hell-are-the-doing-in-my-name“ Christ:

What does it profit one to rule the world by upholding the special privileges of the status quo only to lose your soul?

In regards to Obama, most of us in the LGBT community thought that we were voting for Superman when, in reality, we just replaced Lex Luthor with his evil twin. I think I’d rather have the real thing than some viper who lures you in closer with lies just so it can strike with less effort.

Let’s just take a look at Obama’s record so far:

Obama now supports George W. Bush style Military Tribunes for foreign war detainees (he was against them as candidate Obama).

Obama has expanded (not limited) Bush-style warrantless wiretapping; adding special guarantees of government immunity and expanded “special powers” (without Congressional Oversight) of the Executive Branch.

Obama has stifled government investigations into Torture and the Human Rights Abuses of the former administration.

Obama gives away hundreds of billions of tax payer’s dollars to Wall Street and then turns his back on the union workers who supported him in the Auto Industry;

Obama allows his minions in Congress to conduct hearings on Heath Care Reform where they invite the profit-driven vultures and profiteering extortionists from the Insurance Industry to sit at the front of the table when formulating Health Care Reform — while they simultaneously arrest and expel single-payer National Health Care advocates from the hearings.

On civil rights, Obama has de-priorized repeal of DADT which has destroyed the military careers of over twelve thousand loyal, patriot Americans (even as Candidate Obama campaigned to push Congress to overturn that odious Jim Crow-style affront to human dignity).

Obama (and Pelosi/Reid) have expressed no interest whatsoever in overturning DOMA so that those of us who are legally married (or partnered under some other kind of quasi-marriage-like legal arrangement) can receive federal benefits — as Obama promised.

Obama’s apologists say that he busy trying to save the nation and the economy and jobs — so, then why isn’t pushing for job equality and protections (ENDA) for the tens of millions of GLBT citizens who do not have the same level of job protections as ninety percent of the population?

In the final analysis, the Democrats and, especially Obama, are NOT “The Change You Can Believe In“ ! As bigoted, odious and villainous as the Republican Party is, at least they are upfront about it. The Democrats, along with their lying segregationist, bigoted demagogue, Barak Obama, are master deceivers who troll the GLBT community for money, political volunteers, and votes — only to slap us all in the face with either that tiresome mantra of “the time is not right” excuse or just an outright “get out of my face” avoidance of us after an election — that is, after they have exploited us again in order to grab political power.

The Democratic Party un-official line: “Hey, just because they took us to the prom, it doesn’t mean we have to dance with them — right?”

….Well, that is their attitude. And we are expected to gleefully accept that? But what do you expect when all we get from our fearless “leadership” in the GLBT community is a “bend-over-may-I-have-another” and “will-you-please-kick-us-in-the-ass-again“ subservience from of our masochistic, fan-boy GLBT, Democratic fund-raising, political social clubs and toadies in Washington.

Fortunately, amongst the deluded millions of Obama sycophants who initially supported this dishonorable bigot, there are millions of us now who are finally starting to see the light.

It will be a third party ticket for me and my spouse next time — unless the Segregationists Democrats in Congress and the Bigot-in-Chief in the White House get the message. I am sure many millions in the GLBT community will also express a similar outrage at the ballot box. Maybe then will “our friends” on Capital Hill, and in the White House, get the message that when you win an election with a mercurial coalition of minority voters you don’t dare ignore them nor betray any of their fundamental rights.

If things don’t change, and quickly, I’m ready to:
!!! Ditch President Barack Obush in 2012 !!!!

© Bud Evans