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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Homo Christian Bigots: Barack Obama Our "First Gay President"
Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:46 AM
Tom McClusky of the Family Research Council:
"It was argued during his two terms in office that Bill Clinton was 'our first black President' because of his supposed liberal policies that would benefit African-Americans ... shouldn’t Barack Obama already be our 'first gay President' due to his liberal policies pushing the homosexual agenda?"
Um... really? The same day that the FRC bigots were slamming Barack Obama for pushing "the homosexual agenda," the Obama administration's DOJ filed a brief—echos of the administration's notorious DOMA brief—aggressively defending DADT, the law that Barack "Fierce Advocate" Obama supposedly wants to repeal. What it means (someone isn't pushing the homosexual agenda), why it's galling (Obama's SOTU?), and a full run down of reactions (even the lapdogs at HRC are pissed) at Towleroad.
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