Posted on 02/26/2012 2:36:31 PM PST by kristinn
At a Charlotte, N.C., gathering that often sounded like an Obama campaign rally, top Cabinet member Kathleen Sebelius told nearly 1,400 people at a gay-rights fundraiser Saturday night that it is "hugely important" to not only re-elect her boss in November but also to defeat the proposed North Carolina constitutional amendment further limiting marriage to a man and a woman.
Democrat Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said a host of Obama-initiated advances for the gay community - including repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" in the military - could be "wiped out in a heartbeat" if the Republican presidential nominee wins this year.
She suggested in her 14-minute speech at the Charlotte Convention Center that gays, lesbians and other Obama backers in this key swing state use the May 8 vote on the amendment as a sort of practice run for the effort needed in November to keep North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes in President Barack Obama’s column.
"I know there’s an important election in early May in North Carolina," Sebelius told the North Carolina gala of the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest gay and lesbian civil rights group. "And I think it’s a great template for what needs to be done to organize people and turn out people for November. North Carolina is hugely important in this next (presidential) election."
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How does this work under the Hatch Act; public employee campaigning on government time and using government resources to do so?
Rules, schmules. Those are made for Republicans.
Regardless, I hope someone has her name on a bucket of tar.
What year was HHS created and why shouldn’t we demand it be shut down?
The last time I checked,homos and lesbos have the same rights we heteros do.
Wanna talk about Civil rights? Ask the black people who lived through the Civil Rights era how they were treated.
Easy buddy. Homos have nothing to do with the era of civil rights for people of color.
You misunderstood what I said.
Homosexuals have the same rights we heteorosexuals do and are not regarded as “separate but equal”.
Black people were not treated fairly and had their own pools,water foutains,seats on the bus,places at restaurants,etc. They were regarded as “seperate but equal”,which is impossible and wrong.
I’m not saying homosexuals are going through what the blacks went through.
You misunderstood what I said.
Homosexuals have the same rights we heteorosexuals do and are not regarded as “separate but equal”.
Black people were not treated fairly and had their own pools,water foutains,seats on the bus,places at restaurants,etc. They were regarded as “seperate but equal”,which is impossible and wrong.
I’m not saying homosexuals are going through what the blacks went through.
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