When it was announced that the Ugandan legislator who authored that bill to kill gays had been invited to the National Prayer Breakfast, the response from gay activists was immediate: President Obama should not attend.
Of course, if he refused to attend he would be attacked from the right with an orchestrated reprise of the attacks against his religion and birth.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
I suggested a third way, here:
There is a third way, though: He could go and give Bahati a public dressing-down. He could affirm that the moral sanction for the American Revolution is the natural right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, and that the whole design of American governance is geared toward preserving it. He could publicly condemn Uganda’s brutal legislation as an affront to American ideals.
Well. What do you know? That’s just about what happened. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a few shots, and then Obama weighed-in, characterizing the bill as ‘odious.’
“We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are — whether it’s here in the United States or … more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed, most recently in Uganda.”
Good stuff.
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