When THESE young people 'tell,' the Obama admin. is doing the right thing and IGNORING the law

[Bluebear]

by John Aravosis


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Not gays, immigrants.

Someone ask Treasurer Andy Tobias over at the DNC why the Obama administration can ignore federal law, and let these kids stay, even when they've openly admitted that they're here "illegally" (we call that "telling" in civil rights vernacular), but when gay service members "tell" (and even when they don't tell at all), the Obama administration tells us they simply must follow the letter of the law and kick those soldiers out, lest we be perceived as a country of lawlessness. Why not let both stay? That would involve Obama actually keeping his promises to gays and immigrants.

And, these kids, the DREAM activists, aren't just telling. They're telling, among others, Obama and members of Congress. Check out this letter to Obama today from UCLA student David Cho. Watch his video, too. "Coming out" as undocumented sounds like "coming out" as gay. Or read Mohammad Abdollahi's letter to Obama, which Nick posted a couple weeks ago.

It's not like the Obama administration is keeping its promises to gays or immigration advocates. The Obama administration has deported more undocumented people than the Bush administration. And the President's promises to pass immigration reform - first last year, then this year - have gone about as far as his promise to repeal DOMA and pass ENDA.

But that leaves unanswered the issue of why Tobias, among other administration apologists, such as White House lobbyist Robert Raben, keep lecturing the gay community on how we have to accept the Obama administration's insistence on enforcing DOMA and DADT, and defending those bigoted laws in court, because the President simply has no choice - he must uphold the rule of law.

Except apparently he mustn't. And he doesn't. On a pretty regular basis. Except when it comes to our civil rights.

http://gay.americablog.com/2010/08/when-these-young-people-tell-obama.html

[Bluebear]

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[kiva]

2. Thanks for the link,

it is interesting to see the levels of support for change.