In a group statement signed today by the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Lambda Legal, the ACLU, and other big national organizations—organizations that are typically cautious and concerned about preserving their access—they come as close to "F**K YOU" as they're ever going to get.
Read the full LGBT Legal And Advocacy Groups Decry of the Obama Administration's Defense of DOMA here on SLOG as reported by Dan Savage.
And Dan finishes his article with the sentiments shared by many:
Barack Obama's record on gay rights so far: disturbing, unsound, false, discriminatory, damaging, nonsensical. Before today you could argue that the Obama administration was too busy with the economy and the war and health care to focus on making good on his campaign promises to gays and lesbians, that Obama simply didn't have the time to take up our issues. But you can't make that argument anymore. The Obama administration has the time to take up gay rights issues—but only, it seems, to do harm.
I can't take my vote back. And I'm not sure I would if I could. But I sure as hell would like to have my money back.
* COMMENTS PLEASE! * And please view the short video in the previous post! Was it all just a bunch of lies to get elected?
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