Obama Ad About LGBT Advances

httpv://youtu.be/8tmCEE5cjIc

I heard a small excerpt of an interview Meghan McCain had Tuesday with Michelangelo Signorile‘s radio show.  I have nothing against Ms McCain.  I think she has been a positive voice for LGBT rights in the past and she certainly doesn’t spout the hateful rhetoric that is getting to be standard with so many Republicans.  But something she said really bothered me.  In talking about supporting Romney, she excused his anti-gay stances by saying that not all people are single issue voters.  When asked about Obama’s coming out in favor of marriage equality, she said it was just words and he hasn’t done anything.

I think he’s done a lot.  When you’re treated like a second class citizen, nothing seems like enough until you have full legal equality and you feel safe everyday – that may be a long way off, but no other president has done so much for our community.

I’m not typically a single issue voter, either.  But when one candidate is promising to do whatever they can to grant you equality, and has made many, many steps toward that goal, and the other is v0wing to reverse all those rights and write discrimination into the Constitution… that’s an issue that certainly gets my attention.