No, Thank You, Mr. President

I had hopes, in the very back of my mind, that Obama would be the one to lead us out of the wilderness. And the reason that I was so furious at the brief wasn’t because it contained wildly ridiculous and insulting arguments, but because it is a sign that Obama is not the politician he promised to be. And really, we need a leader. We need a latter-day Harvey Milk who can strategize on a national level and bring together the various groups – political and grassroots and fundraising and education – to really gain traction so that granting our civil rights is a no-brainer to our neighbors and our politicians.

It is this realization that brought me to acceptance. For now, I accept the fact that my rights are second-tier on the list of the President’s priorities. Not because he has a plethora of other things to do (the man has shown that he can multitask, after all), but because this is as far as our rights have ever gotten in the White House. President Clinton, as far as I can tell, dealt with gay issues by acknowledging them and then asking them to go far, far away; there hasn’t been another president who would have them on his radar (including Jimmy “lust in my heart” Carter).

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