Reply #51: Cali give some credit to gay and lesbian people here [View All]

[ruggerson]

and their straight allies.

This is a very serious issue. Obama is playing wedge politics using the bigotry card. He is behaving just like a Republican.

Before Obama publicly lauded Tom Coburn as the "kind of Republican" he could do business with, I was looking at him and listening to him seriously.

I am casting my vote for Edwards in the primaries, but my support for his candidacy has NOTHING to do with my anger about this issue.

This is a pattern Obama has exhibited. He is far too willing to sacrifice the Democratic party's historic commitment to human rights issues for the expediency of his campaign.

To pretend that the anger and hurt and sheer amazement that many of us feel is not genuine is not giving us the nominal respect that we deserve as voters and as human beings.