My Decision 2012: LGBT Equality

LGBT Equality

Mitt Romney is no friend to the LGBT community, not even those conservative/Republican LGBT’s who plan on voting for him. Despite the fact that he ran to the left of Senator Teddy Kennedy on LGBT issues during his 1994 attempt at elected office, he has since flip-flopped. Now, he is for enshrining discrimination into the United States Constitution. This shows that he has no regard for the concept of equal protections under the law which is in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. If he has no regard for the Constitution, how does he intend to execute the oath of office he would have to take as President (I.e. upholding the United States Constitution)?

Aside from marriage, he went on record as being against the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy which kept gay people from serving openly. While he has since said that he would not try to reinstate DADT, Mitt Romney has shown a penchant for switching his opinions on issues. How long until he does so on this policy? As soon as the religious right applies the appropriate amount of pressure, he will start talking out of the other side of his mouth yet again.

President Obama has gone on record as supporting marriage equality and has stopped his administration from defending the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act” when it faces the courts system (which it has done many, many times in the last few years). President Obama also signed into law the repeal of DADT. The President is a supporter of the "Employment Non-Discrimination Act." He has even done an “It Gets Better” video in a campaign to fight against suicides that result from the homophobic bullying experienced by the nation’s LGBT youth. Does anyone honestly think that Mitt Romney would take such a step as that? He has had the opportunity to, yet has not.

The only way that LGBT equality will move forward at the federal level, the courts not withstanding, is with President Obama winning this election. He has already given the community more than any other president, and I wholeheartedly believe that he will take us even farther towards equal rights, making this country a more perfect union with liberty and justice FOR ALL!