As you may already know, June is Gay Pride Month in the United States. The start of gay pride month began with a proclamation from President Bill Clinton in 2000, the summer before President George W. Bush took office, and we've been celebrating it in June ever since. Whereas prior to 2000, pride parades, and festivities occurred throughout the year, with no set date in particular.
For the past three years, President Obama has issued a pride proclamation for the LGBT community. Let this month also remind you of the achievements he's made for our friends, family, co-workers, and citizens of this great nation who are gay.
Not once, did George W. Bush lift his hand to help us during the 8 years he held office, and I highly doubt any of the 2012 GOP presidential candidates are about to mention it either. Well.... maybe just one, Fred Karger, but the Republicans have disowned him (as is the norm), because he's GAY.
"Take pride in knowing you have a Democratic President in office, otherwise you could be sitting in prison, experiencing torture, and possibly death at the hands of a Republican one. Remember this when you're rights get taken away."
- Peter aka Blade7184
You can read the proclamation in it's entirety here.
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From the Office of the Press Secretary - The White House
2 comments:
Okay, so the death part is a little "tongue-in-cheek," but what am I supposed to think when your state (TX) GOP wants to make it a felony if a straight person were to aid and abet a gay couple with tying the knot, and would like to see that person serve mandatory jail time?
Ryan and I already know any business in Texas can refuse service to us - it's the law.
We could also loose our house, get fired, not get hired, pay more taxes even while living together, my love could get deported back to Mexico (if he really was from there) despite our relationship of 6+ (love that plus) years, loose our children (if we had them) if the one who adopted them legally died (Texas law permits that one gay man but not a couple can adopt jointly), pay even more taxes if one of us died, get denied for a loan, get denied to rent a place (if we did loose our home in the first place), and of course we can't get married ALL BECAUSE WE'RE GAY!!!! God help us if we could get fined, imprisoned or legally killed for it like in other countries. Let's hope someone like Huckabee doesn't get elected so he can bring about the pink triangle camps because of his religious beliefs. With an evangelical conservative preacher like him we can all kiss the separation of church and state goodbye. The bible does say that if I lay down with my love that I should be killed. It never said anything about separate beds though. Hey, I might be onto something here, but, then again, I'd gladly go to hell because a life with no snuggles is no life at all.
I've really gotten off course here.
Obama has done much to help us achieve equally amongst the straights, but the work is far from complete. Let's help he get re-elected so that he can continue to help us as much as possible. Thank you Obama. Please don't stop now.
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