Didn't see that on the nightly news didya?THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release June 1, 2009
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2009
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans.
LGBT Americans have made, and continue to make, great and lasting contributions that continue to strengthen the fabric of American society. There are many well-respected LGBT leaders in all professional fields, including the arts and business communities. LGBT Americans also mobilized the Nation to respond to the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic and have played a vital role in broadening this country's response to the HIV pandemic.
Due in no small part to the determination and dedication of the LGBT rights movement, more LGBT Americans are living their lives openly today than ever before. I am proud to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an Administration. These individuals embody the best qualities we seek in public servants, and across my Administration -- in both the White House and the Federal agencies -- openly LGBT employees are doing their jobs with distinction and professionalism.
The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress, but there is more work to be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect.
My Administration has partnered with the LGBT community to advance a wide range of initiatives. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security. We must also commit ourselves to fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic by both reducing the number of HIV infections and providing care and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS across the United States.
These issues affect not only the LGBT community, but also our entire Nation. As long as the promise of equality for all remains unfulfilled, all Americans are affected. If we can work together to advance the principles upon which our Nation was founded, every American will benefit. During LGBT Pride Month, I call upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people to work together to promote equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.
BARACK OBAMA
Friday, June 5, 2009
Slipped this One By
While we were all dazzled at the date in New York and the trip to the Pyramids, Obama slipped this little reported gem by us:
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"slipped by"? or "nobody but you cared"? You are clearly proud to be in the tiny dying minority that wants to infringe on the rights of others based on narrow religious dogma. The rest of us... aren't. I think that this is not news at all. an apparently everyone agrees wth me but the dwindling percentage (down to what, like 20%?) of americans who are more afraid of monogamous gays (and stem cells, of course! cant forget those naughty stem cells!) than of the real crises like the economy and healthcare.
Grow up. "separate but equal" didn't fare so well in the courts last time it came up... I don't think the tides of history are on your side there rumbler. But someday you too will have no choice but to accept that the wider world isn't as bigoted as you are. Move to Iran and wear a burqua, while you're at it. or keep complaining to the voices in your head, of course... always an option when no actual 'people' agree with your half-baked nonsense.
well lookee here... even the ragtag remainder of the GOP's saner wing seems to be realizing how the tides of history are going to play out... How does it feel to be the last horse to cross the finish line?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/120764/Conservatives-Shift-Favor-Openly-Gay-Service-Members.aspx
Ahh, feel the love!
Isn't it wonderful when free thinking individuals get together in cyberspace and have a civil discussion? Isn't it grand when lefties resort to primitive ad hominem attacks and to get their point across?
Point made by Rumbler in the original post is that the main stream media would not cover this issue because they KNOW it would offend the vast majority of decent Americans. The POTUS did this as an insurance policy for the GLBT vote - like he needed it - but didn't want it broadcast. Anonymous response? I'm a "bigot" and should move to Iran.
If this was such a winner for your guy, Anonymous, why not make a big deal of it? We could have National Men Wear a Dress day and really blow it out (bad choice of words). And as for the "wider world," try getting something like this passed in Cuba or Venezuela, those model states you admire so much.
you really think that dont you? that the "main stream media would not cover this issue because they KNOW it would offend the vast majority of decent Americans"??? hilarious, but clearly WRONG. unless of course "decent americans" here takes the meaning of "religious, ignorant hillfolk who are scared of gays"? That is NOT the majority of america anymore (there was this 'election' thing a few months back... how'd that go for the religion-and-guns subset? i seems to recall a sound drubbing for that team... did the MSM make that up?) I think someone believes the voices in his head a little too much...
head in the sand, last horse across the finish line... same old rumbler. this is not baseless name-calling, it is simple thought process. If you care, and nobodlty else does... this is the exact definition of 'outside the mainstream'. See how that works? or do you really, honestly NOT see how that works?
"why not make it a bigger deal"? because IT ISNT A BIG DEAL. nobody really cares if the GLBT people get an official month, there is a month for everything. Are you this up-in-arms over national cheese month? or national "arr i'm a pirate day"? National 'dont you hate pants' day is a winner too...
this kind of stuff is THE VERY REASON that people like you are reduced to mockery. nobody else cares one way or another, and you scream to (well, i guess... me?) the nobody who is listening about the travesty of it.
See how that makes you a member of the lunatic fringe, not the mainstream? QED, old man.
It is sad to see what the loons on the left are reduced to: name calling and fantasy.
This administration trumpets EVERYTHING they do - if this was something they were proud of, it would have been blasted from the mountaintops, you know, like the bit about all the jobs "saved," as the American economy sinks under the weight of Obamaspending.
Just once, try backing up your fantastic vision of what you think this country has become with some facts.
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