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29 Jun 2009 02:58 pm
The Audacity Of Stonewall
Frank Rich contrasts the courage of the Stonewall rioters with the cowardice of Obama:
No president possesses that magic wand, but Obama’s inaction on gay
civil rights is striking. So is his utterly uncharacteristic
inarticulateness. The Justice Department brief defending DOMA has
spoken louder for this president than any of his own words on the
subject. Chrisler noted that he has given major speeches on race, on
abortion and to the Muslim world. “People are waiting for that
passionate speech from him on equal rights,” she said, “and the time is
now.”
Action would be even better. It’s a press cliché that “gay
supporters” are disappointed with Obama, but we should all be. Gay
Americans aren’t just another political special interest group. They
are Americans who are actively discriminated against by federal laws.
If the president is to properly honor the memory of Stonewall, he
should get up to speed on what happened there 40 years ago, when
courageous kids who had nothing, not even a public acknowledgment of
their existence, stood up to make history happen in the least likely of
places.
Andrew's latest call-to-arms against Obama's dithering is here.
(Photo by Joseph Ambrosini, published in the New York Daily News on Sunday, June 29, 1969.)
-- CB
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