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Obama-Biden’s LGBT Agenda

“While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It’s about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect.”

– Barack Obama, June 1, 2007

The Obama-Biden Plan - LGBT Civil Rights

• Expand Hate Crimes Statutes
• Fight Workplace Discrimination
• Support Full Civil Unions and Federal Rights for LGBT Couples
• Oppose a Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
• Repeal Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell
• Expand Adoption Rights
• Promote AIDS Prevention/ Empower Women to Prevent HIV/AIDS

…more information

From The Obama-Biden Transition Team web site - change.gov

Wow. Ambitious.

Of course these are hopes and we have an uphill battle on many of these. Regardless it is nice to have a President who is so clearly on our side.  Unfortunately he won’t have a magic Presidential wand to wave and make them all happen all by himself.  He will need to work with Congress, which has plenty of opponents of LGBT civil rights.

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Me @ 43

Me @ 43; looking all mature and shit.

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Dream Date

President-elect Obama has named his chief of staff - Rahm Emanuel.  Mr Emanuel has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing Illinois’s 5th congressional district.

Rahm Emanuel has been a staunch supporter of gay civil rights and has earned a rating of 100% from HRC for his voting record on LGBT issues.  Equally important, I think he is ever so dreamy.

Despite the devastating losses in Tuesday’s election with straight allies like Rahm Emanuel it is just a matter of time, however long, that we too shall over come and gain equal rights in my beloved country.

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A small victory in a flood of hate

There was a small, but significant, Marriage Equality Victory for my state, Connecticut.

The haters, with the financial support of the Catholic Church, were trying to have a Constitution Convention to add voter driven initiatives to our state constitution. For the sole purpose of having our own version of Prop 8.

The haters lost. 60% of the voters said NO to a Constitution Convention ensuring my right to marry the man I Love.

The only vehicle they have left is the normal amendment process, which is not likely to pass. The majority of the legislature passed Civil Unions three years ago with ease. It is doubtful they would overturn last month’s CT State Supreme Court decision allowing same sex couples to marry.

So come November 12, same sex couples can marry in Connecticut. Unfortunately with all the discriminatory legislation out there, the marriages will only be recognized by Connecticut, New York,  Massachusetts, California (for now.) In New Hampshire and New Jersey they would be recognized as Civil Unions.  I’m so proud to live in the North East.

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I must be doing it wrong

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