When will the USA have its first openly LGBT President?

I think it's still a long way off, so it would be impossible to pinpoint an exact date. However I'd definitely put it somewhere within my lifetime (I'm 25). There are just too many people within my generation, and subsequent ones that are open minded for it not to be a possibility.

and to the idiot who said that the U.S. is a christian nation, go to the library and try and check out a clue. Forgetting the fact that non of the major political players at the time of the signing of the Constitution were pro organized religion or even in some cases God at all.... Look up the Treaty of Tripoli 1797, "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion", that was ratified by the senate of a nation that you mistakenly think was founded on Christianity. Our country was colonized for religion and religious freedom, or nation was created on the basis of separation of church and state.

It took a while for black people to become accepted my mainstream community after they got their rights; there was a period of awkwardness where things were still split among white people: some of them were muttering hellos to the black family next door through gritted teeth, still harboring racist suspicions, some of them were comfortable with society and harmonious. The latter eventually grew to the majority, and now we're enjoying life together as one community with increasing shock over the past, and the Obamas in the White House (I love Michelle, she's great).

Gays don't have ubiquitous rights in the States yet, so they haven't reached step one. Once they have rights throughout the country, there will be a period of getting used to them by the nation's less sophisticated variety, if you will, and people will have to become comfortable with the (legally married) gay couple next door no matter what. That'll be reality.

Once LGBT go through the same process any other previously discriminated part of our society has, it'll be fine. You have to remember, though, that LGBT are only 10% of our population, whereas 'minority' ethnicities and African-Americans are, I'd guess, equal to anybody else, so LGBT will always be considered an anomally, they're only ten percent unless that number rises and they're still deviating from the norm, so it's different than discrimation based on skin color; they're a group, a separate culture, in many ways because of their numbers.

And an LGBT would face more scrutiny because part of what a President has become is promoting an American ideal and lifestyle, the President is unwrittenly obligated to have a nuclear family and it'd be very hard for people to deal with. I also hate to think of what derogatory smear campaigns could arise (the comeback of 'that's so gay' in epic proportions, and hate groups having field days).

I think a female President will still have to come first before a male LGBT will, and many closeted LGBT before that. But my city in Canada has an openly gay mayor! So we're coming along; who knows, maybe you'll end up copying us for once, eh?

I can't say for sure but it will happen one day. We've come a long way in just one generation imagine how far we could go in the next generation or the next, etc. Eventually it will happen & I'm confident that it will happen in my lifetime. Also to the other users. The USA is not a Christian country.

"Christianity neither is nor ever was a part of the common law." - Thomas Jefferson.

Yes the pledge does say "one nation under God" & the currency does say "In God we trust". However take notice it says "God", not "Jesus" & that "under God" was not added until 1954. This country was founded on freedom of religion. At the most all you can say is that this is a theistic country but that's still liable to change at anytime.

I'm from a "conservative" Christian state & while many people here aren't exactly jumping for joy because of LGBT people they have come along way & nearly everyone here would eventually come around, accept & even support any of their family or friends who were LGBT. I don't have parents who fall into that category but my parents are the minority even here in "redneck" Oklahoma. Humanity still has hope.

I don't think it will ever happen...Or if it does I don't think it will happen in my lifetime. That sucks though; the LGBT community could really benefit by having an LGBT president.

I hope it never happens- and am quite confident that it never will.

The United States is a nation based upon the principles of Christianity

"...in God we trust..."

"...one nation, under God..."

and as such will remain that way indefinitely. There will never, ever be a homosexual public official, let alone the president of the United States. The electorate votes in conservative, Christian states (Midwest and South) are too great to elect a homosexual president.

You can go ahead and trash me as much as you want. I'm not going to come back to this question, so you'll be arguing with yourself in a similar matter that you fantasize about gay rights.

There will be. People were saying that blacks cannot lead this country yet we have a 'black' president(though he's not that black).

we already have back in the 1800's james buchanan

I'm getting there, I'm getting there...give me a dozen or so more years

I do not think so because the United States is a christian country and most christians do not support gays.

No because gays suck.