MICHELLE OBAMA STRONGER ON GAY RIGHTS THAN ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTED
Posted on June 30, 2008
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BY STEVE RALLS
Words matter, and Michelle Obama is a woman of powerful words.
Last night, in a passionate address to the Democratic National Committee’s Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council, Mrs. Obama delivered a rousing call-to-equality and put her husband on record as a fighter for the full equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. “Barack believes,” she said, “that we must fight for the world as it should be, a world where we work together to reverse discriminatory laws.”
Invoking “those who marched and bled and died, from Selma to Stonewall,” Michelle implored Democrats to continue those early crusaders’ march “in the pursuit of a more perfect union.”
And it was unions, no doubt, that were on the minds of the LGBT audience that Michelle was reaching out to. With marriages under way in California, and a national debate about marriage equality for all couples taking place in living rooms and legislatures from coast to coast, many in the gay community are looking and listening to see if Obama will stand up strongly for our families or allow the country to be divided and conquered over the issue once again.
The question, for many gay voters, boils down to whether the Obamas can change the tone of the conversation, within the country and the party, about what it means to be equal and free?
According to Michelle, yes, they can.
MICHELLE OBAMA STRONGER ON GAY RIGHTS THAN ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTED
SanFranciscoSentinel.com, CA
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