LGBTQ Community Too Sharp For Recycled Propaganda – Inclusion

“I think that it is a legal right that they [homosexuals] should have that is recognized by the state. If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans,” Obama said, which was then used in advertisements in the four largest LGBTQ markets in Ohio and Texas – Columbus, Cleveland, Dallas, and Houston.

According to Obama’s LGBTQ Steering Committee member, Eric Stern, purchasing of these ads was “the icing on the cake” leading up to today’s primaries.

But before the Obama campaign have their cake and eat it too, in celebration of their outreach to these targeted queer communities, perhaps they need to chew on this as well: What about the queer newspapers in Rhode Island and Vermont that run throughout the New England states, one of which I write for?

Is it that perhaps the LGBTQ populations are two small in numbers to matter and the states too weak in delegate power in helping Obama clench the presidential nomination?

But let me refer Obama to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, when Jesus says in Matthew 5:5 “Blessed are the meek, for they too shall inherit the earth.”

And our community here needs to hear this from you as well if we’re going to ever believe that you want to be part of us.

This timely conversion might appear more faith-driven than politically motivated, but the language of Christian equality was non-existent in Obama’s “Open Letter from Barack Obama to the LGBT Community” as a guest blogger on The Bilerico Project just last week, in which he said:

The differences between civil union vs. civil marriage for same-sex couples is approximately 1,049 benefits and protections that are conferred upon heterosexual marriages. And the differences have been explained and expounded upon to Obama and his campaign ad nauseum. However, his repackaging the same pro-civil union rhetoric since his run for the White House is like re-gifting your undesirable Christmas presents. Sooner or later, when these gifts are passed around enough, someone will take them.

But, Obama, not everyone is buying your re-gift.

A commenter at Pam’s House Blend wrote:

Obama is also in favor of the “States Rights” approach to the whole marriage equality issue. This was a principle sacred to the White Citizens’ Councils a half-century ago and is just as unconstitutional now.

This isn’t a compromise or incremental approach to marriage equality; it’s flat-out opposition to it – and on the basis of old segregationist tricks at that.

But there’s no limit to the ability of some voters to believe whatever is presented to them in a slick package, apparently.

Another Pam’s House Blend commentator wrote: