Gay Rights Activists Disappointed that Obama Offered No Timetable for DADT, DOMA Repeal

The morning after President Obama’s “big gay speech” — as gay bloggers dubbed his Saturday night address to the Human Rights Campaign — gay rights advocates are preparing to march from the White House to the Capitol building this afternoon. The demonstration, set to begin at noon, is intended to pressure Mr. Obama to make good on his campaign promises to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” There was plenty of speculation from gays and politicos alike that he might start one, or both, of these efforts from the podium Saturday night–neither happened. “President Obama gets an “F” for his speech tonight on gay rights,” wrote Kevin Naff, the editor of The Washington Blade, a gay issues newspaper in Washington D.C., as he bemoaned the absence of a timetable for Mr. Obama’s pledges. “This wasn’t so much a policy speech as a recitation of old campaign promises reheated for a breathless audience on its feet.” Full Story from the NY Times: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/sunday-word-big-gay-march/

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