President Obama gave a speech at the Human Rights Campaign, the biggest driver for gay rights in this country. To put it simply, this is a speech that we have heard umpteen times in his campaign and he has yet to deliver on any one of the promises that he has made with regards to the LGBT community.

He mentioned that he was going to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He could have simply on the first day gave an executive order that people were not going to be fired because of their sexual orientation till the policy was reviewed. Did he do that? No!

He mentioned that he was against the “so-called Defense of Marriage Act.” There are 2 components of DOMA. 1) People are not to be deemed married in one state even if they are married in another. 2) The federal government is to recognize marriage as one between a man and a woman. While we cannot determine the President’s stance on component 1, we know that the President agrees with the second part of DOMA. Hence, I find it hypocritical of him to say that he is going to repeal DOMA when he himself supports part of it. (I have a different view, which is to ban marriage altogether…. Read older article http://slashingtongue.com/politics/gay-marriage-sts-position-becoming-popular/.)

He said that there would be a hate crimes bill that he would sign soon. But that bill was around for ten years! Why didn’t he bring it up when he was a Senator? What is his record on this bill? A big fat zero! There has yet to be a bill that he has sponsored, co-sponsored or signed that has anything to do with LGBT issues.

Criticism to this hate crime bill disgusts me. When I was young, my father always told me to stand against discrimination of others. Because if they can discriminate against one group of people today, we could suffer discrimination tomorrow. If we allow people to get away with beating up someone because they were gay, this could lead to someone else being beaten up for being Black, Latino or Asian.

The only issue where we can cut him some slack on is the defense of his nominees. It is obvious that he would do that. He nominated them! If he did not want to stand up against the gay bashing on his nominees, why would he have even nominated them?

I think that we, as Americans, should grow up on this kind of issues. We have to stop considering people with a different sexual orientation as someone that is inhuman. There are still some idiotic politicians that can equate a homosexual relationship to bestiality and pedophilia. This is utterly nonsense, as animals and children minds are not as mentally developed as adults.

I myself, had looked at gay men as sex-hungry sissy boys. That changed in the Army, where I served alongside gays. I realized there that they were no different from me, other than the fact that I like girls and they like boys. I hope that America receives that kind of enlightenment too.

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