The Advocate on Maine loss

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Following the loss of Proposition 8, many equality advocates soured on then-candidate Obama’s unwillingness to take a strong stand against stripping people of their right to marry the person of their choosing.

Tuesday, longtime LGBT activist David Mixner wrote a blistering blog post that impugned President Obama for once again failing to speak out decisively for equality.

“Tragically,” Mixner wrote, “if we lose closely, that defeat almost can be laid at the steps of the White House for their refusal to stand by our side in the battle for freedom.”

Bloggers Jon Aravosis and Andrew Sullivan also marveled at the lack of help offered by the Democratic National Committee and Obama's spinoff arm of the DNC, Organizing For America (OFA).

"It is staggering to me that the message discipline from the DNC is so tight that they even forbade OFA from telling Obama-supporters which way to vote on the referendum," wrote Sullivan.

"Tell us again why any gay voter should help the DNC ever again?" wondered Aravosis.

Their call to arms might foretell a rising anger within the LGBT community over the Obama Administration's seemingly tacit acceptance of a separate and unequal status for gay relationships.