An example of how Obama's ambiguity on gay rights leads to his position being misused against gays

US President Barack Obama rightly says that young Americans should take inspiration from Dorothy Height, the civil and women’s rights icon who died in April 2010. Height was extraordinary in “Refusing to be denied her rights, refusing to be denied her dignity, refusing to be denied… her piece of America’s promise,” says Obama.

That is what every person standing up for marriage equality is doing – refusing to be pushed into a second-class for an arbitrary reason.  So we should take Obama’s message about Dorothy Height and push it back at him on marriage.

Obama is explicitly against marriage equality, as this video shows, but presuming that he does not support racial segragation, he really shouldn’t be supporting marriage segregation either.

Obama can’t credibly pursue the ridiculous idea that separate is equal for gays, but not for blacks. It’s one or the other – but you can’t hold both positions without being either a coward or a hypocrite.

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