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LGBT: BREAKING NEWS!!!!!?

I am pleased to report that on Wednesday, August 12, President Barack Obama is going to present the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Harvey Milk, Ted Kennedy, Billie Jean King, Joseph Lowery, and Desmond Tutu for their work in advancing LGBT rights and equal rights for all people. Your thoughts?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Call me back when ENDA/DOMA and DADT are fixed.

    Source(s): Harvey Milk.
  • 1 decade ago

    CRUMBS! That's all he is throwing us. His administration supported "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" when it was challenged recently in the US Supreme Court and he also supported the "Defense of Marriage Act". He has done nothing to help the LGBT community. Don't accept crumbs any more than you'd accept being forced to sit in the back of the bus.

  • Ray
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    You're only partly right. Harvey Milk's metal is for that, the rest are receiving metals for other accomplishments.

  • 1 decade ago

    I'm looking/hoping for DADT and DOMA be repealed. This is nice but it doesn't really do anything for anyone. Meanwhile we have GLBT famies begging for more rights.

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  • mytard
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I think its a good start, but I hope he does even more for the lgbt community

  • 1 decade ago

    He's throwing us a bone, and hoping that we'll shut up. Harvey Milk is DEAD. I am ALIVE. I want rights NOW.

  • john w
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Just another meaningless gesture.

    I'll be more impressed when he overturns DADT or DOMA.

    Source(s): Does he really think we're this dumb to be pacified by this?
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    email me when all my battles are pulled out of jihad land.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    -__-; Is that supposed to distract me from DADT and the DOMA?

  • 1 decade ago

    obama <3

    awesomeness.

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