Obama Insults LGBT Americans Yet Again

Work hard for a candidate, contribute time and money to support his election and what is your reward? Well, if the candidate was Barack Obama and you are an LGBT American your reward and thank you will consist of a series of insults and a number of weak kneed episodes of whining where he'd rather kiss the asses of those who lie and denigrate gays daily and seeks to undermine him at every turn as well. Based on Obama's invitation to folks at Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council to come t the White House to discuss "policy," I full expect David Duke, other white supremacists, Neo-Nazis and the Imperial Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan to soon be receiving invites to the White House. Or maybe a group seeking to honor Adolph Hitler's birthday on April 20th. In fact, based on this invitation to these two extreme Chistianist organizations who deem themselves exempt from the Commandment against lying and bearing false witness - and who are in essence racist and have not condemned rumors that Obama is a Muslim or not born in the USA - one can only assume that every nutcase organization that seeks to subvert the U. S. Constitution will soon be visiting the White House.

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I truly find it dumbfounding that Obama seems to seek out opportunities to insult LGBT Americans as he at the same times kisses the asses of those who loath him and likely wish him dead. I truly do not understand it. These folks will NEVER work with him or his administration and are responsible for a large measure of the hate and intolerance that has come to permeate politics in this country. Is Obama deliberately trying to tell LGBT Americans to go f*ck themselves? That message can't be more deliberately delivered than by meeting with vitriolic anti-gay groups like FRC and CWA. In retrospect, I continue to wait to be convinced that Obama is not an opportunistic liar who used LGBT Americans for his own purposes during the presidential while having no intentions of making good on his speeches taking about equality for all Americans. Here are some highlights from Right Wing Watch:

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Since taking office, the Right has opposed just about every aspect of his agenda, from his choice of nominees to the economic stimulus legislation. But nothing has outraged them more than reversals of President Bush’s stem cell and “Mexico City” policies.

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Given that FRC’s and CWA’s stance regarding life issues is to vehemently oppose anything that does not move the country toward curtailing, and eventually outlawing, of reproductive choice, what is the Obama administration’s best option for dealing with such groups? Why, inviting them to White House for a discussion on how to reduce the need for abortion, of course.

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If the Obama administration thinks that it is going to win support for anything that it does on this issue from groups like CWA and FRC, it is sorely mistaken … which is something they will presumably learn once this meeting takes place.

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These are not moderate, open-minded groups looking for common ground – they are militant, anti-choice groups committed to, above all, making abortion illegal everywhere and for everyone, with no exceptions.

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It is hard to understand what the administration expects to gain by meeting with such groups to discuss efforts to reduce abortion considering that the only option such groups support is to outlaw them entirely.

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Meanwhile, we have disingenuous and faux news organizations like CBN News - yep, you read it correctly, Pat Robertson's news arm - gloating over Obama's intent to meet with the FRC and CWA hate mongers:

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Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council will meet with Joshua DuBois, the man who leads the administration’s office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Wendy Wright, the president of CWA reached out to the Obama administration and they responded by inviting CWA and some of these other conservative Evangelical groups to The White House. The meeting plans to focus on the need to reduce abortions in the country and on responsible fatherhood programs. Also present at the meeting will be Tom McClusky, Senior Vice-President of the Family Research Council as well as representatives from the Christian Medical Association and Care Net, a pro-life Evangelical pregnancy crisis group. . . . The abortion conscience clause protection issue could come up too.

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Please excuse me as I go vomit and then throw out any Obama paraphernalia that I did not already throw out when Obama selected to Rick Warren to give the Inauguration invocation.