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In reply to the discussion: The war on the "far left" is an effort to move the Democratic Party to the right. [View all]Maven
(10,533 posts)and it makes my blood boil that you can say it with a straight face.
People like Obama haven't led the way on jack shit when it comes to gay rights. Not on thing one. It's taken decades of work by dedicated activists with courage, real courage of the kind a phony centrist influence peddler couldn't even conceive of, it's taken ages of hard work and pressing the issue while the power elite's kiss ass chorus called us disrupters and poutragers and worse.
In the end, he was dragged kicking and screaming, his hand forced by his own Vice President, and that after the poll numbers were comfortably lukewarm. A courageous leader on civil rights he ain't.
Kindly stow those comforting lies back at the BOG, because this gay isn't about to let you rewrite history.