President Obama Lays It On Thick For Lgbt Equality In Inaugural Address

[Jingthing]

Historic, as usual.

A better speech overall than his first inaugural address.

He models himself after Honest Abe Lincoln, who most historians think was America's greatest president.

Some people are seeing Obama as the Abraham Lincoln of gay rights.

http://thinkprogress...ress/?mobile=nc

Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

BTW, the inaugural poem read by the poet Richard Blanco (a charming tradition) was read by the first openly gay inaugural poet ever who happens to also be Latino. That's a twofer.

Edited January 21, 2013 by Jingthing

[Jingthing]

Obama's second term: it gets better.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-invokes-gay-rights-in-inaugural-address/2013/01/21/78bbc410-6409-11e2-b84d-21c7b65985ee_story.html

By mentioning Stonewall with Seneca Falls and Selma, “it closely associates it with other freedom struggles that have great legitimacy,” said John D’Emilio, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor who has written extensively about Stonewall. “Think of it: Here is a group of people who in the president’s lifetime had been reviled.”

Gay rights advocates were jubilant.