Posted on 10/26/2010 4:45:42 AM PDT by lbryce
Less than halfway through his first term, President Barack Obama has appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in history.
Gay activists say the estimate of more than 150 appointments so far — from agency heads and commission members to policy officials and senior staffers — surpasses the previous high of about 140 reached during two full terms under President Bill Clinton.
"From everything we hear from inside the administration, they wanted this to be part of their efforts at diversity," said Denis Dison, spokesman for the Presidential Appointments Project of the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute.
The pace of appointments has helped to ease broader disappointment among gay rights groups that Obama has not acted more quickly on other fronts, such as ending the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bans gays from serving openly in the military.
In a sign of how times have changed, few of the appointees — about two dozen required Senate confirmation — have stirred much controversy. It's a far cry from the 1993 furor surrounding Clinton's nomination of then-San Francisco Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg as assistant secretary for Housing and Urban Development.
Achtenberg was the first openly gay official to serve at such a senior level, and she won confirmation despite contentious hearings and Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who denounced her as a "militant extremist."
"It's both significant and rather ordinary," said Michael Cole, a spokesman for the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign. "It's a simple affirmation of the American ideal that what matters is how you do your job and not who you are."
Gay activists, among Obama's strongest supporters, had hoped he would be the first to appoint an openly gay Cabinet secretary.
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Should be on its way to the glue factory, by now.
He and Rahm probably met most of them in the bath houses of Chi town.
Makes NO difference what obammy does,
If his administration fails to make homosexuality mainstream in America the fags will turn on him like they do virgin meat.
faggots of a feather flock together
Yes, indeed. Shakespeare would be proud. :-)
So that’s why these clueless, inept bunglers are getting fat taxpayer-funded paychecks. They are part of the “diversity quota” policy of our Black president.
Obama Nation.
Hmmm, Barak and Rahm had a large stable to choose from.
There. Now it looks right.
That’s what the Bible calls homosexuality;an abomination.
Why does the Left always want to get into the bedroom of Americans? In this case, they want to report out on how these people have sex.
Leviticus 18:22
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
It’s not just the bedroom. It’s America’s wallet they want to get into as well.
And if we include the might-as-well-be-openly gay, he put one on the Supreme Court.
It was quite clear to me that when making your rather witty comment it was a play on words, the quote of which you were referencing from the Bible. :-)
more gay appointees means more presidential lap dances for zer0
Why wouldn’t a gay President choose gay appointees?
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