Editor’s Note: The LGBT Community Does NOT Represent Me

OK, I’ve just about had it with the whining and crying. It’s bad enough we (the gay community) have people like Perez Hilton leading the example of what and how gay people are to the straight world, but now, even those who I thought may have a bit, just a bit of common sense have gone to the edge and apparently jumped.

I just read a post on Salon that was written by John Aravosis of AMERICABlog entitled, “President Obama betrays the gay community.” What a load of crap!

How has President Obama betrayed anyone? Oh, I’m sorry, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell hasn’t been repealed yet and neither has DOMA. I wonder if John Aravosis were in the White House if it would have been done yet either.

Whether people want to acknowledge it or not, these are laws. Laws can’t simply be repealed by one person. Last I knew, repealing a law took an act of congress. I would also venture to say that these laws should be changed by congress and not by mandate of the President.  The Right Wing nuts have already set their ground on how Obama is trying to turn the U.S. into a socialist country, so let’s let our elected lawmakers, not the executive branch, do the work and keep it a democracy.

I am also very curious how can anyone expect laws that have been in affect for well over a decade to just disappear overnight? I would also like to ask again, exactly how has the president betrayed anyone? He said during his campaign he would work to repeal these laws and for all of those who don’t seem to understand, he has been working to do so…it simply can’t happen overnight. Wake up people, it’s time for a reality check.

Let’s put McCain & Palin in the White House…do you think for one moment any progress would have been made?

I personally would like to thank President Obama for his efforts. I am educated enough to know that all things take time. There is opposition to overcome and there is protocol to be followed. For the first time in history we have a President who actually addresses LGBT issues from a standpoint other than that of Pat Robertson.

I am frustrated and I am embarrassed. Embarrassed by the whining and crying. Embarrassed by the way these self proclaimed “longtime gay rights advocates” have made the LGBT community look. I am embarrassed by the impatience. I am embarrassed to be associated with those who are screaming that President Obama has betrayed the LGBT community. Why weren’t they screaming this loud when the Bush regime was in office? Here we have a president who is advocating for equality and inclusion for the LGBT community, and the LGBT community turns into a bunch of sorry @ss crybabies who have done nothing but ostracize the first man in the white house to even try to help us.

The posts I’ve read criticizing the president obviously come from the most self-indulged, selfish, self-centered people in the world. What makes anyone think the world revolves around them is beyond me. If LGBT issues were the only thing that was on Obama’s plate, then I may have a little more compassion for those who don’t seem to understand how politics work. But, since we are engaged in two wars, a severe financial crisis, a global AIDS pandemic, a national health care crisis, all of which was created by the previous administration, I don’t have any.

I’ve lost my patience, but not with President Obama. He has not betrayed me. I’ve been betrayed by my own community. The LGBT people who just don’t get it!