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Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 20:38:08 PM CST
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| Dan Savage expressed what many in the LGBT community have been feeling. That the President is leaving them out to dry. During the primaries he said he was a fierce advocate for gay rights. Yet only months later when his gay brothers and sisters were singled out at the ballot box to have their rights taken away, he was nowhere to be found. That's OK, it was a campaign, that's strategic and while regrettable it's understandable.
But now he has the job, and he's still AWOL on these issues he proclaimed to be a fierce advocate for. |
| Curtis Abbey :: Dan Savage: President Obama Isn't Doing Squat On Gay Issues |
Dan Savage was on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Lawrence O'Donnell was filling in for Keith and interviewed Dan. Lawrence had just spoken about the leader of the Yes on 1 coalition which succeeded in stripping the right for gay couples in Maine to marry. I don't know if this is PC, but Mr. Mutty, from the Portland Diocese of The Roman Catholic Church seemed the curious type to be against gay marriage.
partial transcript..
Lawrence: We just heard Mr. Mutty say that hate had nothing to do with what happened in Maine last night, is that the way it feels to you?
Dan: No, it's not true. It definitely had everything to do with hate. The Yes on 1 campaign trafficked in vicious anti-gay stereotypes throughout the entire campaign. Their whole campaign was premised upon the notion that allowing same sex couples to legally marry meant teaching gay sex to children at schools in some sort of mandatory anal sex assemblies for third graders. It was offensive and it was vicious and unfortunately it was effective. Not as effective, I think as they would have liked it to be. The margin was about the same as it was in California which is kind of remarkable when you consider how much more rural and catholic Maine is compared to Calif.
Lawrence O'Donnell: And where was President Obama and the Democratic National Committee in this fight?
Dan Savage: Laugh AWOL. President Obama is a fierce advocate of gay rights the same way I'm a ladies man. He isn't and I'm not. The DNC sent out e-mail blasts to Mainers on their e-mail lists in the days leading up to this election that did not mention Question 1, did not encourage people to vote No on Question 1. Barack Obama issued no statement about Question 1, or about the vote in Kalamazoo or about the vote in Washington State. We're very disappointed, the gay and lesbian community with Barack Obama. He could have really made a difference in Maine, and perhaps a decisive difference in Maine. If he was willing to engage in the kind of fierce advocacy that he promised the gay community. He said he would use the bully pulpit that he has in the White House and he hasn't and the DNC hasn't. And I'm not writing a check in a couple years when they come asking. |
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