Gay groups grow impatient with Barack Obama

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President Barack Obama’s promises of change are falling short for one core Democratic constituency: gays and lesbians, whose leaders say Obama’s administration isn’t keeping up with the times.

Gay rights campaigners, most of them Democrats who supported Obama in November, have begun to voice their public frustration with Obama’s inaction, small jokes at their community’s expense and deafening silence on what they see as the signal civil rights issue of this era.

His most important campaign promises repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and the military ban on openly gay and lesbian service-members have not been fulfilled.

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People are so impatient. He's only been in office five months. He's not a miracle worker. Big issues like this take time to work on.

gringaloca wrote:

People are so impatient. He's only been in office five months. He's not a miracle worker. Big issues like this take time to work on.

You couldn't tell that by the media.

Mongo wrote:

gringaloca wrote:

People are so impatient. He's only been in office five months. He's not a miracle worker. Big issues like this take time to work on.

You couldn't tell that by the media.

You do realize that Fox News is a part of the "media" right?

gringaloca wrote:

Mongo wrote:

gringaloca wrote:

People are so impatient. He's only been in office five months. He's not a miracle worker. Big issues like this take time to work on.

You couldn't tell that by the media.

You do realize that Fox News is a part of the "media" right?

OK, let me clarify, the majority of the media.

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It's also interesting to note that President Obama is against gay marriage.