Barack Said The Gay Word

[UALRBSofL]

And I have never heard him say Gay in any stump speech or anywhere on the campaign trail. Do y'all think he's wising up to the issues of the GLBT's are trying to push? However, I wished he would have said GLBT instead of Gay's because it's much more PC. :)

[ecstatic]

1. You haven't been paying attention. He brings it up all the time nt

[soleft]

2. what did he say?

[bidenista]

4. he was listing how he wants to bring all classes of americans together

"gay or straight" among others.

[allinktup]

7. he said "gay"

isn't he the only one who doesn't have a problem with gay marriage? I know edwards is against it. Don't remember if Hillary is.

I don't care one way as another. Gay people have just as much right to be miserble as the rest of the country.

...just kidding ladies.

[Nailzberg]

12. No. All three personally feel marriage is between a man and woman.

All three believe in civil unions, though. Obama has opposed any constitutional amendment that would define marriage.

[DUyellow]

11. I believe he said that it was todays civil rights fight, but i could be wrong about that, i'll post.

the quote if i can find it today.

[Connie_Corleone]

3. He's said it several times before.

He just said it on MLK day at a black church.

[tishaLA]

5. he says it all the time.

[polichick]

6. He did some much needed fence-mending today...

Honoring his elders too.

[jackpan1260]

8. He has said it in many of his speeches

that I have heard.

[Skidmore]

9. You are so wrong. When I attended Obama events in Iowa

he talked about the LBGT community in all his speeches.

[UALRBSofL]

14. Just now on CNN

he said gay, not GLBT. I just heard it.

[DURHAM D]

10. Big deal - its from the script he has been handed.

Hillary speaks from her heart and has been friends with and surrounded by (personally and professionally) members of our community her entire adult life. She has walked it.

Obama just says what he is told. In his heart he does not give a shit about us. He says just enough to trick people like you into believing what you want to see.

[IndianaJones]

13. sure there wasn't an "ex" in front of it? nt.

[Pirate Smile]

15. His speech at MLK's old church a week or so ago also included a

rebuke to homophobia. He actually does it frequently. His first big speech - 2004 Convention included it also.

[Adelante]

16. He always says it, even in churches, talking against homophobia nt

[Jane Austin]

17. He always says it's not red states and blue states, it's

not old vs young, or gay vs straight, etc . . . .

[ErnestoG]

18. It's amazing how O's detractors keep butting at this door...

They are madly trying to paint him as a homophobe, but his comments on gay marriage and civil union are clear. He said "marriage" has been all mired up in religion and religious institutions, which is why he preferred it be relegated to civil unions so that no laws would infringe on people who wanted to marry and enjoy the same legal benefits of the status.

That seems very clear to me. But no doubt, the haters will continue with that battering ram even when it splinters into nothing.

[itsrobert]

19. Must be some huge liberal/blue states ahead?

California and New York?

Change we can believe in, because it's always changing due to whatever state is coming up. ;)

[Hekate]

20. Both Obama and Kennedy gave a shout-out to the GLBT community this morning. I hope to gods...

...this puts the misperception that shall not be named to rest.

Btw, "GLBT" may be more PC, but I have a hunch that the majority of voters don't have a clue what it stands for. Otoh, a person would have had to be living a cave for the last 50 years not to understand "gay."

Hekate