So very rat on, i've been waiting for some gay rage over this unapolegetically power-hungry jerk. Massa Obama, he sho do gwine got de homo-phoby sumpin bad!

These winers have no comprehension whatsoever. For these purists, no one short of another LGBT individual will be good enough, and even many of those aren't pure enough.

The thing that people like about Barack Obama is that he ISN'T ideological or doctrinally pure. He's a realist and an optimist, if the two aren't mutually exclusive. People like him precisely because he speaks his mind so eloquently without coming off like a man who thinks he has all the answers.

Just because he doesn't toe the gay marriage line now doesn't mean that he won't in the future. Look at Spitzer in New York, he's a sign of the politicians to come.

If Barack attains higher office, I am certain that it will be the best of all possible worlds for same-sex-lovin Americans, at least it will eventually.

So let me understand. Rev. Monroe is upset because a pol stays as far away from a controversial issue? Okay so the junior senator from Ill is weak when it comes to gay marriage. That puts him in the mainstream of the Democratic Party!

Barack is a Reagan clone; he's using the same tactis, the same speeches, the same pie-in-the-sky platitides to make people "feel" good.

He is an opportunist in the same vein as the Clintons and if this politico ever reaches higher office, he will screw the GLBT's over just like any other liberal Dem politician.

Bit of an x-post:

ColinATL has the most reasonable and factually correct response here. Obama might not be out there leading the gay parade, but his Christian beliefs have not made him a latent 'phobe. If this huffy columnist followed his career at all she'd know he's a support of equal rights for all.

Paul, you need to decide whether he's Reagan or Clinton. Trying to paint Obama as both refutes both your claims.

Oh, hogshit. He can't be a supporter of "equal rights for all" if he believes the rights for gays should be LESS equal. Is he worth CONSIDERING over others? Yes. Is any Dem with a chance at the nomination likely to have a similar position re gay marriage? Yes. BUT, the DEVIL is in the details, as they say. So I'll take, all other things being equal, someone like Hillary who's only saying it for short term political practicality over Barack O'Bigot who bases his opposition on religion. In short, work for the Dem who can be elected, but don't fool yourself over where his soul is.

Colin's comment about "toe(ing) the gay marriage line", believing that Barack will "eventually" be good for GLBT Americans and his pap about hets knowing what's best for gays smacks of a DNC planted comment.

>she'd know he's a support of equal rights for all.

He's made it clear that he does not support equal marrige and during the last election stated that he does not support civil unions. Which Barack are you talking about?

>Paul, you need to decide whether he's Reagan or Clinton. Trying to paint Obama as both refutes both your claims.

Read my reply again.

He's using Regan's tactics in his speeches to audiences. I'd suggest you read some of Regan's speeches and compare them to Barack's and you'll understand what I mean

He shifts his political stand to whatever the current climate is regarding a particular position--much like the Clintons.

Get it now, sunshine? You're welcome to be an apologist for Barack. But Clinton made a lot of promises to get our votes and money in '92 and '96 and all he did was give us Don't Ask, Don't Tell; DOMA; and never delivered on the federal anti-discrimination laws protecting GLBT's that he promised. Barack is cut from the same cloth.

Watch as this tapoic becomes flooded with pro-Barack comments from posters with suspect sexuality.

Obama is against gay marriage and says he supports civil unions. How is that anti-gay or homophobic? Then, by that definition, every Democratic presidential hopeful is anti-gay. Feingold is the only one to support full marriage equality. So, we're using gay marriage as a litmus test to decide is someone homophobic.

Also, as an FYI, Obama belongs to the United Church of Christ. It's the largest mainline Protetsant denomination to support gay marriage, even if, obviously, some congregations or members are not 100% supportive. Obama's church, Trinity UCC in Chicago, is one of the largest gay-friendly traditional black churches in the city, if not the largest. Not all "Christians" are against gays--the UCC even has ads on many of the gay blolgs now.

BTW, Obama never supported the Iraq War. He wasn't elected during the original vote and always spoke against the war.

Listen, I'm gay, and equality is a big issue for me. I understand that it's important and that couples and indeed families everywhere are affected by this.

But seriously...single-issue-vote much?

Lamb

hang-up the phone. tell Trent Lott and Michael Richards you'll call them back later.

you can't complain about homophobia, while at the same time using racist language.

Has anyone examined Senator Obama's voting record? Visit the HRC's website and download the 2006 congressional scorecard. As a gay man, I am personally counting on our future as something so much more than a life based on the single issue rhetoric I've read here.