Obama Speaks at 2009 Human Rights Campaign
“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
~Ernest Gaines
The 2009 Human Rights Campaign might have been one of the greatest moments in 2009- if you are a moron. President Barack Obama confirmed that he will be ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell policy” . Obama gave no time span and very little details about it. However the lgbt community clapped and applauded as if he had announced that they were making same sex marriages legal throughout the United States. Let’s just think for a second.
The first discharge in the U.S Army because of homosexual encounters was in 1778. It took 231years for a president to even suggest demolishing the policy. I’m impressed with Obama speaking at the Human Rights Campaign, however I find it questionable that after all of these years, the same president that claimed he would “pull troops out of the war immediately” is still sending ” troops off to war” , would be the same president to demolish the “don’t act don’t tell policy”.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m an Obama supporter to an extent, but sometimes its just good to question things. I understand the principle behind what it means for the lgbt community as far as demolishing the “don’t ask don’t tell policy. However my mind goes, and so now all I can think about is , now its easier for more of the lgbt people to join the military, I don’t believe in war in any form or shape, therefore I could care less for the policy being thrown out the window. I’d rather see the lgbt community at home, going to school or following their dreams and goals then to be in the U.S. military, fighting a war that we shoulod never have been in the first place.
I’d like to see “same sex” marriages legalized in every state, thats when I’ll jump up and down and applaud and clap, throwing the “don’t ask, don’t tell policy” out of the window just makes us one step closer to also fighting in a war. Make same sex marriage legal, legalize love… not war.
