Stop being so uppity

An op ed in the NY Daily News would like you all to stop being so uppity.

Entitled, "Gay America, get your priorities straight," the op ed brings out, rather obviously and tediously, that same old irrelevant argument about how we all need to get over our angst with Obama - he's a very busy man and has an economy and two wars to deal with.

That's nice. But our main gripe with the president doesn't have anything to do with him not yet repealing DOMA and DADT, or pushing Congress to pass ENDA. Our problem with the president isn't that he hasn't yet fulfilled all of his promises to the gay community, it's that he seems to have gone out of his way to take affirmative steps to harm our community. Being too busy to deal with the gays is one thing. Taking time out of your busy war/economy schedule in order to take a swipe at us is quite another.

We're not upset that Obama hasn't yet lifted the gay ban. We're upset that he continues to kick two gay service members out of the military, destroying their lives, every single day, when he could issue a stop-loss order to stop it now. We're upset that he and his staff no longer talk about repealing DADT, now they simply talk about changing it. We're upset that his military advisers seem to be publicly undercutting the president on the DADT issue. We're not upset that the administration is doing nothing on DADT. We're upset that it's doing something all right, and what they're doing is bad.

We're not upset that Congress hasn't yet repealed DOMA, we're upset that the president who called DOMA abhorrent is now defending it in court and comparing our marriages to pedophilia and incest, among other atrocities in the 50-some page brief.

The list goes on.

It's just icing on the cake that the administration has done little to act on any of its major promises to the community.

The writer of that op ed is parroting somebody's talking points, but he's not accurately describing the cause of the community's angst.