In his most recent column for The Atlantic, Andrew Sullivan offers a telling perspective on his feelings about the Obama administration’s approach to gay rights issues. Although he genuinely believed that Obama would make a real push for the cessation of anti-gay discrimination by the government, he is now much more skeptical of the administration’s true intentions. Here’s an excerpt:
Translation: we’re doing the bare minimum to make us look no worse than Bush, but we have no real interest in this and are letting the bureaucracy handle it, and we guarantee nothing. On gay servicemembers, the president is writing personal notes to those he has fired and intends to continue firing. Will he write some personal notes to the people with HIV he deports? Will he write personal notes to the gay spouses suddenly without a home or their late spouse’s savings or forced by his administration to relocate abroad because he has no intention of actually fulfilling his promises?
I can only start to imagine what other “progressive” points of Obama’s campaign will turn out to be “same old same olds” in the coming years.
