Anyway, to Will, you’re right. The disregard for the rights of gay people in this country will some day be recognized as big an atrocity as the disregard for minority races in this country. Full of contradictions, we always must question ourselves and our beliefs, and sometimes it takes a ten year old to help us do it. Good for you. You are correct in your objections. Do not believe anyone who tells you otherwise.

Hooray for Will. And may we all be inspired by his temerity.

Great job Will!

If this is what happens in a “backwards” state, then I’m proud to be from Arkansas. Good work kid. :)

peace,

Arkansasgrl

Obama repeatedly shouted “gawd’s in the mix” and empowered bigots. To continue getting money and votes he whispered that he had a tactical difference with the authors of Prop 8 – he said their efforts duplicated those of Clinton and other Democtrats and Republicans who’d passed DOMA. He said Prop 8 was unnecessary.

Hedid not say he thought we had the right to marry. He did say that only striaght poeple have that right becasue “gawds in the mix.” That’s the statement of a religious bigot and the other bigots at Yes on 8 quoted him in millions of robo calls and thousands of radio-TV ads and he never contradicted them.

The polls reversed and we loss. That’s history. Your lies don’t change a thing.

Aside from the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, an MTV video is at http://www.mtv.com/videos/news.....on-8.jhtml and it clearly stated that Obama opposed Proposition Eight. He said that he had “stated his opposition to [Prop 8].” While he said that he did not support gay marriage, he also said you should not play around with constitutions. He specifically said, “this [modifying constitutions to take away rights] is not what this country is about.” In other words, while he was not going to “support” (e.g., actively promote) gay marriages, he opposed modifying state constitutions to take away rights.

If a few percent more not comfortable with same-sex marriages did what he suggested, Proposition Eight would have failed.

I’m sure we will see Bill Perdue claim once again that he somehow “knows” that Obama’s people are paying me to say this, no matter how idiotic that lie is, and it won’t surprise me if he denies what is on the video – that is, if his track record is any guide.

Did you not notice the kid’s shirt?

“Nerds 2^2 Ever”

He wore that on national television.

If he had done or said nothing else, that’s all the awesome I’d need to know.

Obama is as much our enemy as Clinton and Bush were.

No. 26 • 1EqualityUSA I think we need a national organization of activists, independent of the Democrats and Republicans, with a mass action perspective and a thoroughgoing democratic internal life.

Put all the existing GLBT groups in a room and ask them to design a vehicle for our progress and a they’ll give us a grouchy, evil smelling, biting, spitting CAMEL that demands half a million a year and a house and a car and socialized medicine and an expense account and full insurance and…

Things like:

• giving us and everyone else need a real program to solve the crises of economic failure and unemployment.

• taking steps to nationalize banks and insurance companies and get back the hundreds of billions wasted on bonuses, excessive salaries and stockholder revenues that came out of TARP.

• fighting for good housing, an end to foreclosures, federal guarantees of interest free loans for new loans and to replace current mortgages, 30 day vacations at pay, maternity and paternity leave with pay and guaranteed socially paid full educational opportunities. GLBT folks and everyone else needs that.

• GLBT folks and everyone else need an end to the wars and an offer of open asylum to GLBT muslims and others endangered by the US invasions and occupations from Palestine to Pakistan.

• We need a Manhattan Project approach to ending the HIV/AIDS plague worldwide.

In essence what we desperately need is fifty state equality in jobs, housing, domestic arrangements and in access to services. We urgently need freedom from violence and the hate speech that produces it. Obama and the Democrats and Republicans won’t do that because they can’t do that. Their owners wouldn’t put up with it.

Feeling that the government needs to do more to further your agenda is a natural and admirable part of our democracy.
Good luck.

But calling this administration your “enemy” is simply foolish and merely confirms that you have no idea WHO you real enemies are — and no concept of the harm they want to do to you.

You — and the silly folk who read/edit this site — must truly look inward, do some digging and begin to think criticaly, factually and historically.

Take a look at what happened to gay folk in Nazi Germany. Take a look at what is about to happen to gay folk in Uganda. Think about what is happening with increasingly frequency to gay folk in Jamaica.

THESE are examples of the real enemies of GLBTs and their victims were not boo-hooing on blogs — their victims were rounded up, killed and buried.

Think about that — and think about how every time you recklesslessly and senselessly demonize the current administration, you are paving the way for the politicians who want you DEAD to come to power and exercise their own charming efforts to limit that quest for equality and liberation.

For almost two years we’ve watched with mounting anger and mounting disbelief (for the naive) as he fought to lead the right centrist Democrat party, the party that gave us Bill Clintons DADT and DOMA even further to the right.

There’s no longer any room for argument about his political role.

McClurkin and Warren are right wing bigoted scum who make their living calling us less than human and undeserving of the right to marry and to be equal. They were successfully used by Obama’s campaign under the direction of Josh Dubois, an ordained pentecostal bigot, to increase the Democrats share of the bigot vote.

Obama himself went to Warren’s church, California Bigot Central and said that we shouldn’t be allowed to marry because “gawd’s in the mix.” He repeated it on MTV. The polls reversed on Prop 8 and we lost. He saw the same polls we did and even though he’d have won even if he’d reversed himself and supported equality he didn’t.

Some will say that homohating and pandering to it are not unique to Obama and that the Democrats and Republicans are infested by bigots and those who cater to them.

I agree and I’ve said do for years. Those parties are our enemies too. I said so during the campaign and long before it became clear to millions of GLBT folks.

But that doesn’t excuse Obama; it just put’s him in context. For us the context is discrimination and violence. For immigrant and imported workers the context is a racist denial of medical services. For the unions and working people the context is union busting, unending foreclosures, homelessness and mounting, Depression level unemployment. For GIs and civilians from Palestine to Pakistan the context is dying for Texaco and Halliburton.

That’s why he’s our enemy. You may like his (and the Democrats) wars, their unemployment, union busting and racism towards immigrants and muslim civilians. Feel free. That’s your choice, but don’t try to tell us he and his party are not our enemies when they so clearly and publicly are.

It’s no use bemoaning the fact that people are cathing on to Obama and are angry. They got change but it’s for the worse.

But your brand of thinking only empowers those who truly seek your disempowerment and demise.

I do hope for all of our sakes, you wake up to this fact before it is too late.

To attend my own pity party, my girlfriend and I watch every documentary, fictitious film, and read every book we can find relating to gays, both their lives and struggles. I feel completely helpless due to the opinion that gays are mostly in the news when it deals with tragedy and persecution. Of course, large pride rallies are covered, but only to a certain degree. I applaud this boy for both the courage to stand up for his beliefs and, substantially, the publicity it has caused – no matter how small it seems, his efforts were a great example of what we can individually be [activists] and provides a great inspiration for us all.

It’s really simple and this kid gets it – you either for equality or against it. It’s that simple.

Your enemies tend to care about you and it’s clear Obama doesn’t care enough to be our enemy.

People criticizing a 10 year old child for telling the TRUTH as it pertains to 30 million LGTB American Citizens.

This world has lost its mind.

The boy is a hero. And proof that our message is getting through.

HE SHOULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT FOR 2050!

And Obama is our open enemy.

They shouldn’t be mentioned in the same sentence.

It’s an insult.

CNN Headline News gave him his own segment this morning, just he and his father.

LOL. I know, I know.

But still…

It’s all they live for.

I disagree with wondermann…

This particular headline is a hot mess.

Remarkably inspiring.

“This kid is far too young to be drawn into battles such as these.”

Bullshit. Its people like him that are going to make the difference. He is drawing a huge amount of attention to an issue that is too often ignored. He is doing it in one of the most backward states our country has to offer and its those people that will be on the bleeding edge of making things go forward.

Its easy to sit in San Francisco and preach about gay rights. Its not quite so easy to do it in a place like Oklahoma, or Arkansas. Its sure as hell not easy to do it when your 10 years old. I am sure this kid is being teased like crazy and he is holding his ground. Mark my words, he will be among the next leaders.

I love this kid. I just hope his parents take responsibility for keeping him safe and understand the ferocity with which people hate. This kid is in physical danger and I really hope that they are aware of this and taking appropriate steps.

So in advance for member of the BOQB who is going to find something negative about this awesome kid: YOU ARE A GAYWAD!!!!

Meanwhile, as the kid himself says, his opposition to the pledge is also anchored around existing racism and sexism in the culture.

Accordingly, all liberation movements can claim him as a hero –not just GLBTs.

This can only lead to no good…..

I’d like to stop the Obama mess, but the election is three years away.