It’s unconscionable….
…that a garden of opportunity turned into a graveyard of failure to even try.

“Equality is a moral imperative. …And as president, I will place the weight of my administration behind … a fully inclusive Employment Non Discrimination Act to outlaw workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. … I will never compromise on my commitment to equal rights for all LGBT Americans. … Americans are yearning for leadership that can empower us to reach for what we know is possible. I believe that we can achieve the goal of full equality for the millions of LGBT people in this country. To do that, we need leadership that can appeal to the best parts of the human spirit. Join with me, and I will provide that leadership.”  - Barack Obama, February 28, 2008.

“Barack Obama has the largest majority of both houses that any President has had in 30 years, and yet he’s governing as if it’s 50-50 or even he’s in the minority. Now, he should be willing to take some hits for what he strongly believes in, and the American People will respect him for that, even I think, if they disagree with what – that’s the way it was with Reagan, and that’s the way it was for a long time with Bush. Instead, he’s managing the fight between the two sides. He’s not leading the fight. And it’s a strategy. It might have worked. But it hasn’t worked. It’s clearly not working now. And it needs to be rethought.” – Eric Alterman, Bill Moyers Journal, January 22, 2010.

As if that weren’t bad enough, our advocates in Congress had brought us to the brink of passage of the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, which would have guaranteed an end to discharges. All they needed was public endorsement by the man who pledged to personally fight for it, and some arm twisting of Dem holdouts by him as functional head of the Party to bring it home. Instead, he once again let the Pentagon tail wag the dog and turned on them, trashing the existing bill and shoving a new one down their throats which only guaranteed that, in the words of SLDN Director Aubrey Sarvis, “extraordinary power was given” to the Pentagon.

I am so ashamed…I am so ashamed that so many in my community support this Party of Dixie and Segregation expecting action on lgbt equality.  So sad…  

And when it passes we’ll have Easter eggs candy and cake and a good job and a nice house. And everyone will get to marry if they want and GI’s won’t be murdered by the WH fighting for BP and Haliburton and many other wondrous things will come to pass…
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If anything ever passes, and no one has a clue about when, it’ll probably be the gutted version promoted by Queersling Barney Frank.  

There is no ENDAYou don’t get it, ENDA is Pie in the Sky.
You are never going to see it happen at the federal level.
You might see it in most of the 50 states but not at the federal level just like gay marriage.
The majority of the country doesn’t support it.

That’s why I say FUCK THE LEGISLATORSTake our issues to the courts.  

Well, neither do you, but…… it so happens you are wrong.
The majority of the country supports ENDA. The majority of the country supports repeal of DADT.
But majority is irrelevant.  ENDA is necessary to end rampant discrimination.

guess againnearly 80% of the public supports ENDA.   check the polls before making those kind pf statements please.

Whenyou selectively poll for a demographic then and only then can you even come close to finding a majority that supports ENDA.
DADT that’s another matter, people really don’t care who they throw out as fotter to fight the elite’s wars.  
There is no reason to be fighting anywhere outside our borders right now.
Iraq is for the elite, they want control over more oil.
Afghanistan the elite want to control the heroin trade.
US troops are guarding opium fields for the international elite.  

See above

Save that…… the polling isn’t done selectively for a demographic.
Your point fails.

I’ve never been prouder… …to be the ‘Idiot’ that The Chosen Ones branded me as being

Significance of primariesRepublican primary races tend to be won by the more socially conservative candidates, largely because the white conservative Protestant Southern Baptist, schism derivatives of mainstream denominations, neo-Pentecostal, and non-denominational churches, and parachurch media and organizations are highly effective at Getting Out The Vote for primaries. Primary turnout from the fiscal or defense-minded Republican voters is much less efficient, and the party is thus veering off into the Delusion Zone.
The Democrats seem to behave differently. “Can this candidate win the general election” is a serious issue for primary voters. Primary voters also seem to be more representative of general election Democratic voters, in demographics and in opinions. The left-most voters do not dominate the Democratic primaries. Thus, Democratic general election candidates tend to be centrist, while Republican general election candidates tend to be far-right.

Who is the gAyTM open for, then?My roommate and I were discussing this situation tonight (prompted by the Log Cabin Republicans in Texas), and we were hard pressed to find answers.  Obviously, there are next to no Republican candidates to support.  Democrats give lip service, but at this point, it seems clear that cookie crumbs are the most they’re willing to commit to.  Unfortunately, in the US, that’s exhausted the vast majority of options.  
My roommate suggested a candidate pool that was a mix of moderate Greens and moderate Libertarians.  I’d go for that candidate, except… I wouldn’t begin to know where they are.  I’d love to donate to them, and see the LGBT community collectively abandon the Dems (or at least make the threat real enough to force real action), but we have to know who and where they are, first…

To qote MLK Jr. from the Letter From A Birmingham Jail:

You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word “tension.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue.
One of the basic points in your statement is that the action that I and my associates have taken in Birmingham is untimely. Some have asked: “Why didn’t you give the new city administration time to act?” The only answer that I can give to this query is that the new Birmingham administration must be prodded about as much as the outgoing one, before it will act. We are sadly mistaken if we feel that the election of Albert Boutwell as mayor will bring the millennium to Birmingham. While Mr. Boutwell is a much more gentle person than Mr. Connor, they are both segregationists, dedicated to maintenance of the status quo. I have hope that Mr. Boutwell will be reasonable enough to see the futility of massive resistance to desegregation. But he will not see this without pressure from devotees of civil rights. My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
…I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

We need to take moderates on; We need to create the tention that pushes legislators into taking our civil rights seriously.
We are in need of awakening up to our Selma moment. We need to take our equality serioulsy, be prepared to not only work for equality, but sacrifice be prepared to sacrifice for it as well. We need to take the responsibility of our equality into our own hands with direct actions…just as other civil rights movements before ours has done. If we don’t, we will be stuck waiting those five years that Congresswoman Speier predicts we’ll be waiting — perhaps we’ll be waiting even longer.

5 years. 10 years. Someday. Never.Obama promised to support it?  That was the clearest possible sign that it wouldn’t happen.  He has promised one thing and done the exact opposite so often and so consistently that anticipating what his administration and his party will do is easier than reading tea leaves.  Step 1: Listen carefully to what he promises.  Step 2: Expect the reverse.  It hasn’t failed yet, and there’s no reason to think it ever will.  We’ll see the tides stop turning before we see him stop tap-dancing away from his pledges.

Ah.So you’re apparently suggesting that we swallow the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
To paraphrase MLK Jr.:

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of inquality and segregation to the sunlit path of justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

Instead of accepting defeat, we need to bring direct action to our congresspeople; we need to create more tension. This is so that our congresspeoplw will take LGBT community members’ civil rights seriously.

ENDA, DOMA, DADT gone before the Presidential elections…Or I and many others will work hard to defeat any and all Democrats possible.  I will dedicate the rest of my life to it, 24/7.

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It’s a good thing we havelarge Democratic majorities in Congress and a Democratic Congress.  
I guarantee if there were a Republican President, the Congress would take this up again and then allow the Republican to veto it.

Perhaps you shouldlook a little deeper into this matter before discounting my statement out of hand.
Bottom line, no ENDA not now, not in 5 years not ever.
Employers are not going to be saddled with another set of laws, not when they can outsource everything from making Dixie cups to taking orders at the local burger joint.  
In case you haven’t noticed there is a depression going on and we are just about to attack Iran, which will start WW3.
This president has continued the Bush legacy of spreading death and war throughout the planet.
Another puppet of the international bankers without a single thought of his own.
ENDA always has and always be pie in the sky.

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Bye-Bye.

You assume…That I haven’t.
Which is an error.  I simply don’t buy into some of the conspiracy theorist stuff that you are using to support your allegations.

Conspiracy theories that’s funny.
If you would like to refute anything I have said, please be my guest.
Just back it up with some facts.
Have a wonderful 4th.  

The Core of the PartyThe democratic “core of the party” is exactly who votes in mid-terms. Remember Donna Brazille said they didn’t need that “Core Constituency Anymore”.  Rahm called us all “..tards” anyway.  Enough of us “..tards” have been totally turned off by these republicans masquerading as democrats.
Obama will support DOMA  just as they supported all of the other violations of Constitutional Rights enacted by Bush.  
By stringing us along the Dem elites think that they can somehow guarantee  our votes for as long as they can.  Remember how Nixon dragged out the Vietnam war just to get another term?

HehIf you’d care to support any of your statements with facts, please feel free.
You simply don’t tell an old Bircher what is and what isn’t.
I will say, though, the whole “mystery” thing to most here provides some amusement.

The choice betweenOvert hostility from the GOP and lip service from the DNC is hardly-palatable.   But there it is.   It certainly doesn’t make a Republican right,  or good,  but there it is.
What the Dems may hope to take for granted is that there is no big difference between our holding our noses and voting and our active and energetic support.
I think there’s a big difference, though.
We don’t have to vote for those who are overtly-hostile to communicate that.