So since our new President can multi task [View All]

[ruggerson]

and since President-elect Obama said this in an April interview to the Advocate:

"I don’t think that the gay and lesbian community, the LGBT community, should take its cues from me or some political leader in terms of what they think is right for them. It’s not my place to tell the LGBT community, "Wait your turn." I’m very mindful of Dr. King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” where he says to the white clergy, "Don’t tell me to wait for my freedom."

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid53285.asp?page=2

Starting Jan. 20th (amongst all the other things we are expecting him to do, including ending the war and constructing a workable health care plan) I hope and trust we will have strong support from our straight allies here on DU and elsewhere to pressure Congress to start working on three things for which we have been waiting far too long.

1) Repeal DOMA. The families in the states that DO have legalized same sex marriage need to be recognized by the federal government.

2) Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell. GLBT folks have spilt a lot of blood over the centuries fighting for the country of their birth. It's about fucking time, the government didn't mandate that we lie about who we are as a prerequisite for defending our nation.

3) Employment Non Discrimination Act. Giving gays and lesbians employment protections is supported by over 80% of the country. Congress needs to pass it and President Obama needs to sign it.

We don't know how long we will have control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency.

We've been asked to wait countless times and we waited.

Don't tell us to wait yet again for our freedoms. *

*(credit to David Zephyr who was thinking along the same lines and would probably have posted this far more eloquently.)