Obama's Repeated Gay Bashing Risks the Loss of a Key Voting BlockObama never had the support of the LGBT community. Indeed, 63% of LGBT Democrats supported Hillary Clinton during the California primary <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21225970/> , while a paltry 29% cast their votes for Barack Obama. I imagine LGBT support for Clinton was equally strong in other states, for according to a poll conducted last November, this constituency favored Clinton by a staggering 41 point margin <http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/clinton-polls-best-among-\ gays-lesbians/?apage=2> . There are reasons the LGBT community supported Clinton over Obama: Obama refused to be photographed with Gavin Newsom in 2004 <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/05/BAM5US1B5.D\ TL> , when the San Francisco Mayor was the center of a national uproar for his support of gay marriage; Obama participated in a gay bashing "Gospel Tour" in South Carolina with Donnie McClurkin <http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/obamas-gospel-concert-tou\ r/> , an African-American minister who views homosexuality as a disease Jesus Christ can cure; Obama cites his Christianity when he mentions his opposition to gay marriage <http://www.q-notes.com/oped/oped_110406a.html> in his text entitled The Audacity of Hope; Obama stigmatizes and minoritizes gay marriage <http://www.q-notes.com/oped/oped_110406a.html> when he refers to it as such in his political speeches and texts; Obama admits to seeking spiritual counsel from a certain Rev. James T. Meeks, a homophobic minister in inner city Chicago who was named by the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of the "10 leading black religious voices in the anti-gay movement <http://www.chicagopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/5603104> ;" Obama refuses to march in gay pride parades <http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/07/chicago-gay-pride-parade-aka-where\ s.html> ; and Obama will not allow himself to be interviewed by the LGBT press <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9503.html> . Because Obama has a record of homophobic speech, actions and affiliations, the LGBT community rallied behind Hillary Clinton. And they may rally behind McCain-Palin, for Obama's continued disrespect for this constituency will compel many LGBT voters to reconsider their support for the homophobic Democrat.
Obama, according to The Advocate <http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid61930.asp> , will launch a gay bashing "Faith, Values and Family" tour with homophobic Catholic legal scholar Douglas Kmiec. I quote with added emphasis: The Christian Broadcasting Network is reporting <http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/447440.aspx> that the Obama campaign next week will kick off "Barack Obama: Faith, Family, and Values Tour," designed to woo the votes of left-leaning Catholics, progressive Evangelicals, and some conservative mainline Protestants. If LGBT people find the tour eerily reminiscent of the South Carolina gospel tour the campaign arranged last year with antigay "ex-gay" gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, their instincts may not be far off. CBN names Catholic legal scholar Douglas Kmiec as one of the religious surrogates who will hit the road stumping for Obama. Kmiec wrote a June 13 op-ed <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/13/EDCJ1181AC.\ DTL&hw=Kmiec&sn=002&sc=844> for the San Francisco Chronicle supporting California's Proposition 8, the ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage, titled "On Same-Sex Marriage: Should California Amend Its Constitution? Say `No' to the Brave New World." Kmiec's first two sentences in the piece read, "The California ballot initiative intended to set aside the state supreme court's judicial invention of same-sex marriage deserves public support. Maybe it is enough to say, as many do in conversation, that it merely re-secures a millennia of tradition and common sense." Obama, in other words, will campaign with a legal scholar who believes "a millennia" of "tradition," "common sense" and homophobia should be preserved. Kmiec, by the way, is the former constitutional legal counsel to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Republican jurisprudence is the change in which the LGBT community can believe, I guess. But it gets worse, for Kmiec writes the following in his 13 JUN op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle. I quote with emphasis added again: Separating marriage from procreation may also have other remote, but frightening, ill consequences. Society should be skeptical of wider use of asexual procreation. An earlier dark moment in U.S. history employed eugenics to forcibly sterilize the mentally disabled. The push for artificial wombs and the genetic manipulation of intelligence already peppers scientific literature - a push that would no doubt grow, accommodating even the minimal same-sex desire for simulating natural child birth - claimed to be of interest for 20-30 percent of same-sex couples. When carefully assessed, the acquisition of unnatural reproductive means often advances the interests of the very affluent through a libertarian exercise that would threaten all hope of democratic equality. According to Kmiec, gay marriage is a harbinger for a social eugenics that manipulates the human genome in the name of maintaining social hierarchies. A threat to democracy, the LGBT community in Kmiec's warped mind is attempting to eliminate the heterosexual population. Raising specters gleaned from science fiction novels, Kmiec stokes the fires of a fear of a queer planet. For some reason Barack Obama finds this entirely acceptable. Indeed, Barack Obama desires to use the campaign funds he has collected from Democrats and from members of the LGBT community to give this Catholic legal scholar of the lunatic, Republican fringe a platform in Colorado, Indiana, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Florida, New Mexico, Virginia and Wisconsin. If we witness a spike in hate crimes against the LGBT community in any of these states before votes are cast in November, we will only have Barack Obama and Douglas Kmiec to blame. We also know who to blame if Barack Obama loses the general election. For the LGBT community does not take too kindly to gay bashing in the name of garnering votes from Evangelicals and other conservative Christians. Barack Obama never had our votes, and he certainly will not gain them if he continues to terrorize devout Christians with the specter of a queer planet. Obama, by the way, refuses to attend LGBT Democratic events: Michelle Obama was the one who addressed the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Council of the Democratic National Committee in New York City in June <http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/06/26/michelle-obama-speaks-to-ga\ y-democrats/> , and she was the one who headlined the lunch for LGBT delegates in Denver <http://gayzetteblog.com/2008/08/26/michelle-obama-headlines-lgbt-delega\ tes-lunch/> during the August convention. Barack Obama was nowhere to be found. But then again, the man who has received spiritual guidance from homophobic ministers probably fears that the audience would try to genetically clone him into a gay man. How odd it is that the Democratic Presidential candidate is a gay basher and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate is a woman who vetoed anti-gay legislation <http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2006/12/29/6> . While Obama is routinely criticized in the LGBT press for his homophobia, Sarah Palin receives accolades from Gay.com for joining the cause of the ACLU and nine homosexual couples employed by the state of Alaska and by the city of Anchorage. Perhaps the LGBT community is one of those constituencies Barack Obama and Donna Brazile believe they can shed as so much toxic waste from the Democratic Party's past <http://thepage.time.com/transcript-from-cnns-election-center/> . If this is the case, then I guess the LGBT community should consider supporting the McCain-Palin ticket. After all, Palin supported the community while Obama was bashing it with Donnie McClurkin and Reverend James T. Meeks. And now Obama will bash the community with the former legal counsel to the Bush and Reagan administrations in 12 states. While this may yield one or two Evangelical votes for Barack Obama, Obama's continued and unrestrained gay bashing will also result in tens if not hundreds of thousands of LGBT votes for John McCain and Sarah Palin. For similar to the Evangelicals and conservative Christians Obama and Kmiec will court, the LGBT community votes "ALL our values." <http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/447440.aspx> Also see Reverend Amy's essay <http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/26/two-fer-faith-train-and-same-se\ x-marriage/> on Barack Obama's second gay bashing tour. 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