President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama host LGBT reception

A Measure Of Equality Via Executive Order?

Update, Wednesday, June 17, 2009: The President signed a Presidential Memorandum that will expire when his Presidency ends.

It is a beginning. Not enough, but a beginning.

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It is expected that today, President Obama will extend a measure of equality to same-sex partners of federal employees.

Well, I hate to be the one to explain a rights struggle to the first Black President, but the equality movement is not a grab bag of rights. You don't get to reach in and see which prize you've won. Each of the rights discussed above - the right to benefits for your partner, the right to serve openly in the military and the right to access the same tax breaks and immigration privileges given to heterosexual couples - should be granted. Immediately. Granting one does not absolve trespass over the other rights.

Obama has made it clear that he will do only the minimum necessary to avoid a gay revolution. Gay rights are consistently moved to the bottom of the political barrel. He thinks extending benefits to a few federal employees is sufficient.

It's our job to let him know that is not enough. source: The Huffington Post

Very curious timing as yesterday it was reported on Politico that gay and lesbian activists are pulling out of a Biden fundraiser. Okay. I need to correct that. I meant to say prominent (i.e. wealthy) persons from the LGBT community.