From the AP:
Wanda Sykes will soon get the chance to make fun of President Obama to his face.
The comic actress has been selected as the entertainer at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington.
“The first thing I did when they asked me to do this gig: I made sure my taxes were paid,” [...]
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that gay rights supporters are trying to ”Obamafy” as they continue to fight for marriage equality in California:
Obamification, organizers say, is more than just connecting supporters through social networking sites such as Facebook and building mile-long e-mail lists. It would involve pairing new media technology with old-fashioned, door-to-door outreach - two [...]
This is from the White House’s website on the “Civil Rights” page:
Support for the LGBT Community
“While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, [...]
The L.A. Times writes an editorial urging Obama to reconsider his position on civil marriage equality:
Pastor Rick Warren, the famous leader of Lake Forest’s Saddleback Church, became a lightning rod in the same-sex marriage controversy when he was chosen to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Yet he didn’t give his opponents anything to [...]
From Gabriel Rotello over at the Huffington Post:
Ah ha, I knew it! Barack Obama supports same-sex marriage after all. (Or at least he did before he set his sights on national office.)
That’s the eye popping news this week from a gay newspaper in Chicago.
The Windy City Times dug through its archives and discovered two candidate [...]
As ever, the great atheist Christopher Hitchens nails it over at Slate:
As Barack Obama is gradually learning, his job is to be the president of all Americans at all times. If he likes, he can oppose the idea of marriage for Americans who are homosexual. That’s a policy question on which people may and will [...]
Gawker points out that the gays are being shut out of Obama’s Cabinet.
First he booked an anti-gay pastor for the inauguration, and now the president-elect is expected to shut openly gay candidates out of the two cabinet seats they had a shot at.
If you think the left, gays included, were pissed off with Obama shutting them [...]
