Homosexual activists are angry — and getting angrier by the day —
over the perceived lack of action by the Obama administration on
their issues. The angst was typified by a march yesterday in
Washington, D.C., that the Los Angeles Times
gleefully described as "festive" and "boisterous" but that
was really more anger-ridden than anything else.
Obama
has said he supports repealing the federal Defense of
Marriage Act, signed into law by our last Democratic president,
Bill Clinton, in 1996. He's also pledged
to repeal the military's don't ask, don't tell policy
prohibiting homosexuals from serving openly in the military. But
similar to the rationale for his Nobel award, Obama has garnered
kudos from the homosexual activist lobby exclusively for his
rhetoric, not his actions — because, quite frankly, he's done
nothing.
The fact of the matter, though, is that he doesn't have to. And
he knows it. Voters who place the homosexual agenda high on their
list of policy objectives are decidedly left-wing and reliably
Democrat in their voting patterns. The Democratic Party
establishment, including Obama, knows this. Similarly, the
Republican Party establishment knows that it can count on the
evangelical Christian vote, provided it pays enough lip service
to issues such as abortion and homosexual marriage.
So, in many ways, the homosexual rights coalition is becoming the
evangelical Christian community of the left — a reliabe voting
pool that the Democrats can take for granted. Could it backfire?
Maybe, but I doubt it. Similar to evangelicals, homosexual
activists have no other viable third party option. They're stuck.
So they make a lot of noise and hope the establishment listens.
