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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Obama's Civil Rights Agenda

I meant to post this yesterday and forgot. (I overslept -- do you believe it? Me?)

Very odd post by a guest blogger, Alexander Tsesis, at Balkinization on Obaman's civil rights agenda. Note the complete inability to see the elephant in the room. Although health care is included, and food stamps for ex-felons are included (can you ever, in this country, be an "ex-felon"?), there is no mention, aside from the hate crimes bill, of the major civil rights issue of the decade: GLBT rights. No mention of DADT repeal, no mention of DOMA, no mention of the Uniting American Families Act, no mention of transgender rights at all.

Perhaps this means, as I have begun to suspect, that Obama has no "civil rights agenda."
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