By TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty
HRC credits President Barack Hussein Obama with helping propel the LGBT agenda to new victories. The HRC report is a handy guide to seeing just how radical Obama is on behalf of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, cross-dressers and the she-male lobby.
HRC writes of Obama:
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President Obama has nominated more openly LGBT people for administration positions in his first year in office than any previous administration has in its first four years. Among those serving in or nominated for top positions in the Obama Administration are: John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM); Nancy Sutley, chairperson of the Council for Environmental Quality; Kristina Johnson, the Under Secretary of Energy; Fred Hochberg, chairman of the Export- Import Bank; Jenny Durkan to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of the state of Washington; Chai Feldblum to be commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and David Huebner as ambassador to New Zealand.
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The administration sent high-profile representatives to testify in support of key LGBT bills on Capitol Hill. For example, Attorney General Eric Holder testified in support of the hate crimes bill in the Senate; OPM Director Berry testified before the House and Senate in support of the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act; and acting EEOC Chair Stuart Ishimaru and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez testified before Congress in support of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
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In June, President Obama issued a memorandum directing all federal agencies to extend whatever benefits possible under current law to the domestic partners of their employees, and he encouraged Congress to pass the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, which would extend health, retirement and other benefits. In response, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has made clear that protections for LGBT federal workers will be part of the guidance given to all federal agencies. And OPM has issued proposed regulations extending sick and funeral leave as well as long-term care insurance to same-sex partners of federal employees.“President Obama has been the best president money could buy for the promotion of the LGBT agenda and the undermining of normalcy, traditional values, religious liberty, and marriage as a union of one man and one woman.”
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The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Clinton, extended numerous benefits to partners of Foreign Service officers, including diplomatic passports, access to overseas medical and training facilities, inclusion in housing allocations and access to emergency evacuations. The department also reversed a Bush Administration policy that refused to use a marriage license of a same-sex couple as evidence of a name change for passports.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a proposed regulation in October to prohibit discrimination against LGBT people and their families in HUD housing programs and FHA-insured mortgages. HUD also announced it would conduct the first-ever nationwide survey of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in housing.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized a regulation that will go into effect in January that finally lifts the ban on HIV-positive visitors and immigrants. In the meantime, the Department of Homeland Security suspended the denial of green cards to otherwise-qualified HIV- positive applicants.
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The Census Bureau overturned the Bush Administration's overly broad interpretation of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and agreed to release data on married same-sex couples along with other demographic data from the 2010 Census.
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The first response by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to the suit brought by the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders challenging the constitutionality of DOMA was extremely disappointing. Despite some improvement in subsequent briefs, we still believe the administration does not have an obligation to defend DOMA.
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President Obama launched a National AIDS Strategy, a move advanced by AIDS advocates during the campaign, with the key goals of lowering the number of new HIV infections, increasing the number of people receiving care and reducing racial disparities. President Obama also announced a new, five-year outreach and prevention project titled Act Against AIDS, which targets populations most at risk.
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In March, the Obama Administration and the State Department formally endorsed a United Nations resolution condemning criminalization and persecution based on sexual orientation and gender identity -- a measure the United States, under President Bush, refused to support.
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Finally, President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to LGBT icon Billie Jean King and, posthumously, to LGBT hero Harvey Milk.
Three of the most bizarre appointments by Obama include Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to become head of the Safe and Drug Free Schools office in the Department of Education and Amanda Simpson, a she-male who will work as a senior advisor in the Commerce Department. He is a surgically mutilated man who pretends to be a woman.
Obama has nominated lesbian activist lawyer Chai Feldblum to become a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Feldblum believes the gay agenda should routinely trump religious freedom; and believes that polyamory (multiple sex partners of males and females) should be equal to traditional marriage in our society. Feldblum was the primary author of the Employment Anti-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which she will enforce as a member the EEOC. Her spot on the EEOC will be a fast track to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In short, President Obama has been the best president money could buy for the promotion of the LGBT agenda and the undermining of normalcy, traditional values, religious liberty, and marriage as a union of one man and one woman.
Clearly, although Obama has repeatedly broken his campaign promises, he has kept his promises to the LGBT movement. They bought and paid for him and he’s repaying them handsomely.
Remember Obama this November when you cast your vote for Senators and for Representatives in your state. A president’s power can be significantly reduced when he has no control over the House or Senate – and when a majority can override his vetoes.
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