Stephan: Obama is disappointing in so many ways, but still remains the only adult running for the Presidency. I read this as a further example of how strongly the theocratic right influences the electorate, and how much everyone in politics is afraid of them.
Does it strike you as strange, as it does me, that at a time when the country faces so many crises that all we seem to talk about in our political conversation are issues around sexuality? As a country we seem unable to really face reality or to tell ourselves the truth.
In separate interviews, two prominent LGBT activists slammed President Obama for refusing to sign an Executive Order ‘at this time’ barring federal contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Tico Almeida, president of Freedom to Work, was among the LGBT activists in a White House meeting with senior advisor Valerie Jarrett earlier in the week who were told the order would not be signed. He said the White House rationale was ‘weak,
