Reply #97: You are right, Obama IS the best president EVER on LGBT*.* issues...

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But with the bar set pretty damn low (Clinton is the only real comparison here and look what he did. He promised he would allow gays to serve openly in the military and instead we get DADT--which Obama is trying to end).

What a lot of you folks don't seem to get is that the majority of the LGBT*.* community doesn't deny that Obama has done a lot but in comparison, he hasn't done much and we want and deserve the whole enchilada. We have a President that had a majority when he was elected and he could have, in those two years, achieved more. From his first day in the White House he could have told the DOJ not to defend DOMA, it would not have been out of the ordinary to do so. He could have pushed that Congress pass ENDA in those two years when we had the majority. We knew that was the perfect time to get things done and that time was not used wisely IMO.

I, for one, am tired of getting blamed for every damn thing wrong under the sun. I'm tired of hearing that openly gay teachers shouldn't teach because they may molest children. I'm tired of getting blamed for natural disasters, I'm tired of getting blamed for losing elections. If Democrats stood up for the LGBT*.* community and demanded an end to this injustice, this would NO LONGER BE AN ISSUE that can be used against the Democratic party.

Personally, I'm just waiting for the day that Republican party realizes that if they want to sway an election, they'll come out IN FAVOR of LGBT*.* rights. For example, look at NY right now.

Explaining why he is voting for marriage equality in NY, Republican, Sen. Roy McDonald, decided it was time to “do the right thing.”

“You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing. You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it. I don’t care what you think. I’m trying to do the right thing. I’m tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the job and shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I’m trying to do the right thing, and that’s where I’m going with this.”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/06/gay-marriage-new-york-not-north-korea.html

I would love a Democrat, especially our President, to stand up on this issue and proclaim "Fuck it, it's time to do the right thing." Instead, it's a Republican saying what really needs to be said on this issue and that, IMO, is sad.