September 19, 2008

Obama-McClurkin Redux: He Throws Us Under the Bus AGAIN.

Damn it, Barry, I hate the fact that you keep proving I’ve been right about you all along — I wanted you to prove me wrong. With all my heart and soul, I wanted, so very badly, for you to prove me wrong. But here you go again:

Obama to Launch Faith Tour
That Includes Supporter of Prop. 8

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign is reportedly launching a “Faith, Family, and Values Tour” next week that will include Catholic legal scholar Douglas Kmiec as one of the campaign’s surrogates. Kmiec wrote an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle this summer in which he urged support for passing California’s marriage ban, Proposition 8.

The Christian Broadcasting Network is reporting 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 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.” …

Here’s Kmiec’s hit piece.

Kmiec’s views run counter to those of Obama, who voiced his opposition to Proposition 8 in a letter addressed to San Francisco’s Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club. “I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California constitution, and similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states,” the Illinois senator wrote.

B.F.D.

Contacted by The Advocate for comment, Obama campaign spokesperson Shin Inouye confirmed CBN’s report, reiterated Obama’s support for LGBT rights, and echoed the theme of diversity that Obama often trumpets himself.

Oh, for crying in a bucket, Inouye, face the music.

And, Obama… Damn it, what the hell is wrong with you?

I tell you, Barry, the only reason I don’t rip you an even bigger one right now is that the only thing I want less than for you to be POTUS is to have McCain and that freak of nature Palin in charge.

But that is all.

You want to prove me wrong, Barry? Do right by us for once in your wishy-washy life, grow some balls, and sack Kmiec, now.

Otherwise… Oh, forget it. You don’t care about us. You never have, and you never will.

Oh, and Obama supporters, if you have a problem with me raking your man over the coals again, take it up with the person who keeps causing all this bad blood: Obama. You deal with him and his Kmiec problem — and if you don’t give a damn about us LGBTs any more than Obama does, then maybe you’ll have a problem with him being in bed with “the former constitutional legal counsel to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.”

If your guy spent half the time “reaching out” to the progressive base of the Democratic Party as he has to our sworn enemies (our sworn enemies, kids — the right wing that hates you just as much as it hates me — remember them?), he wouldn’t be in quite so much trouble at the polls as he is right now.

At one time, he could have even had my vote. All he had to do was apologize for his terrible judgment for Donnie McClurkin, swear it would never happen again, and then make sure it didn’t.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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