...really to strongly and emphatically encourage Congress to grant immigration equality to GLTB couples under the Uniting American Families Act? There’s a raft of life-changing civil rights just waiting to be won by the Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual, Bisexual movement in America and we need the President we helped elect to step up.
Now. I have to believe he’s getting anachronistic and piss poor advice from his handlers. I have to believe that he’s ignoring his own strong political instincts for the sake of larger projects like – yanno – rescuing the American economy and ensuring affordable health care for all. Clearly, these are big, momentous challenges. No one’s denying that. But neither is it impossible for a President, in the midst of such challenges, to repeal discrimination where he sees it. One can walk and chew gum, after all.
What’s new, what’s interesting, is that lately the punches from political and religious gay bashing organizations like National Organization for Marriage and Focus on the Family really haven’t been landing like they used to. In fact, with their over the top theatricality and rosary bead rattling they’ve actually been striking at the very rationale those organizations exist to promote. This is SIGNIFICANT. It means that we’re in a new and unprecedented moment of transformation.
It’s time to act.
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