the rift, it is not healed
Jun. 19th, 2009 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdStonewall Democrats cut off support for the Biden/DNC event, over both the recent policy decisions of the Obama administration and being shut out of various support channels - they're expected to raise money for the DNC but get no support? Not so much. Other important donors are dropping out as well.
Andrew Sullivan calls this a good start, but not enough:
It looks like cutting off the money gets some results, though - they sure as hell don't care about us, but they sure do care about some cold, hard cash. With donors dropping off left and right, suddenly there's a big Justice Department outreach set up to GBLT groups, which is a huge change given their absolute refusal to do so before now.
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, a group of fundamentalists is trying to get books about GBLT youth not just banned, but burned. Specifically. Please, continue. Book burnings have never been so popular!
Andrew Sullivan calls this a good start, but not enough:
We need actions to highlight the administration's betrayals, postponements and boilerplate. We need to start confronting the president at his events. We need civil disobedience. We need to tell him we do not want another fricking speech where he tells us he is a fierce advocate for our rights, when that is quite plainly at this point not true. We will not tolerate another Clinton. No invites to these people for dinners or fundraisers. No cheering him at events while he does nothing to follow up on his explicit promises. ...In general, you can summarise this as "enough of this crap." Also, here's a letter from a heterosexual couple to the Obama administration on this topic.
We need to swamp Pelosi with phone-calls. We need to target Reid for his inaction. We have to pressure Barney Frank and Tammy Baldwin not to excuse the disdain that the Obama administration is showing toward gay equality, and their cynical use of our votes, money and passion to enforce real and potent discrimination against us and our families. And we have to refuse to attend White House signing ceremonies like yesterday's farce. Really: until they are serious, we should not be coopted and placated with pathetic sops. ...
Fight back. Act Up.
It looks like cutting off the money gets some results, though - they sure as hell don't care about us, but they sure do care about some cold, hard cash. With donors dropping off left and right, suddenly there's a big Justice Department outreach set up to GBLT groups, which is a huge change given their absolute refusal to do so before now.
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, a group of fundamentalists is trying to get books about GBLT youth not just banned, but burned. Specifically. Please, continue. Book burnings have never been so popular!
