Dan Savage "Rips the White House a New One"

Many LGBT blogs have expressed distress - or is anger and fury the better word ? - at the speech made by Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama's disingenuous tool at the HRC dinner which tried to tell LGBT Americans "It Gets Better" even though the Obama administration has done basically NOTHING to help it get better. Dan Savage, who recently launched the "It Gets Better Project" in the wake of the wave of gay teen suicides gets right to the point and says what, in my view, ALL LGBT Americans should be saying to Obama and his White House flunkies (unless, of course you put "access and cocktail party invites ahead of making things better for all of us). Here's Dan's column from The Stranger (the emphasis is Dan's):
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Fuck you, you pack of co-opting cowards.
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Seriously. You can do a more than offer hope. You have the power to make it better. Right now. Suspend enforcement of DADT. Don't appeal the decision by a federal judge that declared DADT unconstitutional. Stop defending DOMA in court. Keep your promises. Make it better. And if you're not going to keep your promises or do what you can to make it better, White House, then you could at least have the simple human decency to shut the fuck up.
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State-sanctioned discrimination against LGBT people legitimizes the kind of anti-gay attitudes and beliefs that lead directly to anti-gay bullying at the ballot box and anti-gay bullying in schools. You can do more. Enough with the speeches. Enough with the pretty words—particularly lifted ones.
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Fuck you.

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Dan's 100% on the mark. By his inaction, Obama is aiding and abetting those parasites such as Maggie Gallagher, Tony Perkins, et al, who make their living denigrating gay lives everyday single day. He likewise gives credence and support to gay hating politicians like Mr. Paladino in New York and continues to send a daily message that discrimination - and yes, even violence - against LGBT Americans is OK. If it were not, he'd take some of the actions that Dan mentions above. Actions speak louder than words.