...for a community that revels in visibility battles over prescriptive language, Obama's backroom maneuvers give LGBT groups nothing to fundraise about, no cause célèbre to swaddle in a gay flag and nurture as a victim of intolerance.
"Obama added that he was working with the Pentagon, as well as Congress, to end 'Don't Ask Don't Tell.' He called this period a 'transition' toward that end but said it had to be done pragmatically, so the new policy works in the long-term."
— Obama, speaking to LGBT movement leaders
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Too many LGBT people will be left feeling unsatisfied and clammy after repeal of DOMA and DADT... after passage of ENDA and the hate crimes bill gives them no more reason to feel good about themselves than they already have.
"We've been in office six months now. I suspect that by the time this administration is over, I think you guys will have pretty good feelings about the Obama administration."
Since there is no elegant ratification of an amendment to the Constitution, one reemphasizing that "This Means Everybody!"... what other process is there but incremental passage of legislation?
What is there besides successive stages that will never really satisfy a community that clings to a pseudo-mythology regarding the glorious day daddy will say it's okay to be gay and everybody listens?
Unless the LGBT community learns to celebrate the occasional incremental success as raucously as it laments injustice and occasional setbacks, there will never be any feeling of accomplishment this generation can internalize as self-identification with citizenship.
"Gibbs did emphasize that when Obama faces re-election in 2012, DADT will have been repealed."
There will be no one event, after which the gays can say, "Now, we're accepted."
Obama is saying something when he tells us it's not for him to tell you to be patient...
"...anymore than it was for others to counsel patience to African-Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half century ago.
"But I say this: We have made progress, and we will make more. And I want you to know that I expect and hope to be judged not by words, not by promises that I made, but by promises that my administration keeps."
The LGBT community is expecting an emancipation proclamation that will make the world a safe place to be gay all at once.... and it's not going to happen. It can't happen, and holding Obama to that expectation is unfair to him and the people you convince that such a situation is even possible.
Celebrate the incremental successes, the repeal of DOMA and DADT... passage of ENDA and the hate crimes bill, because no single advance can deliver what we're looking for all at once.
"I'm not sure we should be applauding the president for passing the buck, however eloquently he is while he does so."
— Dan Savage, sex advice columnist
LGBT leadership will sell its community short if it should never celebrate until the battle is completely won.
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The Millennium has passed...
...but the Armageddon-mongers haven't.
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The Indirect Prophesy of Tim Pawlenty: Premonitions of Hypocrisy and Pain
"Any time you have leading figures who are engaged in behavior that's sad and troubling and hypocritical, other people are going to look at that and say, 'Hmmm, they don't walk the walk.' And so the words and the actions don't ring true."
— Minnesota's Republican Governor Pawlenty
Read more about Pawlenty's Whack at Sanford
If there's ANYTHING we've learned during this endless parade of Republican hypocrisy-mongers out to burnish their crazy conservative cred on the shredded hope of their fallen, it's that a Rapture-ready End Times denizen like Pawlenty is most likely standing in line somewhere behind Sanford on a long walk of shame to a stage in front of the news cameras.
Here, Pawlenty joins the ranks of those who claim not to see the 50% divorce rate has ANYTHING to do with the institution of marriage... and he lines up with Tribulation-crazy lady Sen. Michelle Bachmann as they pledge to support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota.
See more of that crazy day
A comment like that can come only from someone completely out of touch with facts on the ground.
We need to realize these guys push legislation and proclamations that are better suited for characters who don't even intend to be here once they're disappeared in the twinkling of an eye... Raptured right when their bombs drop from the sky.
But... what if YOU're Left Behind?
The Rapture-panic party would withhold from us accessible healthcare, food safety, public education, and even basic human companionship... everyday necessities the heaven-bound simply don't believe WE'LL need when THEY're Taken Away.
— Minnesota's Republican Governor Pawlenty
Read more about Pawlenty's Whack at Sanford
If there's ANYTHING we've learned during this endless parade of Republican hypocrisy-mongers out to burnish their crazy conservative cred on the shredded hope of their fallen, it's that a Rapture-ready End Times denizen like Pawlenty is most likely standing in line somewhere behind Sanford on a long walk of shame to a stage in front of the news cameras.
Here, Pawlenty joins the ranks of those who claim not to see the 50% divorce rate has ANYTHING to do with the institution of marriage... and he lines up with Tribulation-crazy lady Sen. Michelle Bachmann as they pledge to support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota.
See more of that crazy day
A comment like that can come only from someone completely out of touch with facts on the ground.
We need to realize these guys push legislation and proclamations that are better suited for characters who don't even intend to be here once they're disappeared in the twinkling of an eye... Raptured right when their bombs drop from the sky.
But... what if YOU're Left Behind?
The Rapture-panic party would withhold from us accessible healthcare, food safety, public education, and even basic human companionship... everyday necessities the heaven-bound simply don't believe WE'LL need when THEY're Taken Away.
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Assimilated LGBTs on the Cusp of Ironic Acceptance
"Krambuhl, who was sipping lemonade enriched with vitamin V, said the mainstream might be overrated.
"'There's nothing to be gay about any more,' he lamented.
"A lot of people here aren't gay or lesbian at all," said Rick Collins, a computer consultant from San Francisco. "We've become somewhat assimilated, I guess."
Read more about how boring it is to be gay these days.
Crowds gathered on Pink Saturday, among Dykes on Bikes and beer-bongs. Once fierce, the LGBT community implores mainstream leadership to acknowledge its newly adopted brand of normalcy... while an indistinct sense of ennui, name-brand things, and married couples with children settle on a community that seems to realize that it left behind its soul in exchange for acceptance.
When all is said and done, the world wasn't changed by the gays as much as the gays were changed.
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"'There's nothing to be gay about any more,' he lamented.
"A lot of people here aren't gay or lesbian at all," said Rick Collins, a computer consultant from San Francisco. "We've become somewhat assimilated, I guess."
Read more about how boring it is to be gay these days.
Crowds gathered on Pink Saturday, among Dykes on Bikes and beer-bongs. Once fierce, the LGBT community implores mainstream leadership to acknowledge its newly adopted brand of normalcy... while an indistinct sense of ennui, name-brand things, and married couples with children settle on a community that seems to realize that it left behind its soul in exchange for acceptance.
When all is said and done, the world wasn't changed by the gays as much as the gays were changed.
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