Hillary Clinton wrote her piece and Cheney spoke his, then, the Mesiah moved in just to be sure he didn't loose any votes!.
Oh, and by the way here's an update posted at the end of this article:
" It turns out that Mr. Obama's claim "to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an Administration" isn't accurate, since by April 1993 President Bill Clinton had nominated two openly gay Assistant Secretaries."
POTUS Honors LGBT Pride Month by Not Supporting Same Sex Marriage, While Cheney Disagrees
ABC News - June 01, 2009 7:02 PM Kristina Wong
Saying he’s “proud to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an Administration,” President Obama issued a presidential proclamation Monday in honor of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
To LGBT activists, however, some of the omissions on his proclamation likely spoke louder than the words included.
Mentioning his administration’s international efforts to decriminalize homosexuality, the President said he would continue to “support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans” -- enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil unions, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for gays and lesbians in the armed services.
“Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community,” the proclamation reads. “Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans.”
That equal justice under law did not include, in the president’s recitation, perhaps the highest profile issue on the gadar – same sex marriage, or what LGBT activists call “marriage equality.”
Interestingly, the presidential proclamation came the same day that Mr. Obama’s conservative nemesis, former Vice President Dick Cheney, seemed to say he supported same-sex marriage as long as the rules are determined on a state-by-state basis. (more...)
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