Reply #108: Sure. Thanks for asking.

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It's the sentence about LGBT issues by used by people "who seek to divide us." That's a slam toward those of us who complained about the McClurkin incident. The implication is that our concern isn't legitimate, we were just causing trouble in an effort to "divide us."

Then the message follows up with promising "respect and dignity" to all people. Well, whoop-de-doo. Who wouldn't agree that all people deserve "respect and dignity?" That's exactly what the fundamentalist activist ex-gays like Donnie McClurkin tell their huge, adoring audiences. They say that queer people are as bad as murderers and child rapists, but we "all deserve respect and dignity."

McClurkin has repeatedly said that gay people need to be prayed over, that our sins can be washed away if we just renounce our sinful evil gayness and accept Jesus etc etc.

Obama's ad actually echoes the words that offended so many of us in the first place.