Obama Declares June: Gay, Lesbian, Transexual Month
In a presidential proclamation on the White House website, Barack Obama has lauded what he calls "the determination and dedication" of the LGBT movement by proclaiming June as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month."
"The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress," Obama states in the official proclamation, "but there is more to be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect."
The proclamation, released on Monday, credits the LGBT movement with being a factor in more Americans who ascribe to those groups "living their lives openly today than ever before."
The president also takes pride in being the first U.S. chief executive to appoint "openly LGBT" candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an administration.
He uses the proclamation to emphasize LGBT-related initiatives that he intends to pursue in the future -- both domestically and internationally.
"I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexual around the world," he states. "Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans."
Among those measures he lists "hate crimes" laws, civil unions, discrimination in the workplace, adoption rights, and ending the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy "in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security."
See Chick's WOUNDED CHILDREN.
"The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress," Obama states in the official proclamation, "but there is more to be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect."
The proclamation, released on Monday, credits the LGBT movement with being a factor in more Americans who ascribe to those groups "living their lives openly today than ever before."
The president also takes pride in being the first U.S. chief executive to appoint "openly LGBT" candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an administration.
He uses the proclamation to emphasize LGBT-related initiatives that he intends to pursue in the future -- both domestically and internationally.
"I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexual around the world," he states. "Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans."
Among those measures he lists "hate crimes" laws, civil unions, discrimination in the workplace, adoption rights, and ending the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy "in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security."
See Chick's WOUNDED CHILDREN.
posted by chickcomics | 8:42 PM
1 Comments:
I was fascinated to find this blog, after I learned about the Chick Tract Club.
I of course joined immediately, and plan to get memberships for friends and family.
On a personal note, I personally participated in an "Operation Somebody Cares" campaign way back in the summer of 1970...it was a different time back then, revolution was in the air. (The foll0wing year, The Poor Revolutionist was issued, and I passed out several hundred on a local college campus, causing a number of disturbances in the process! I of course saved one for my collection.)
I still have the Operations Somebody Cares tract and the accompanying bulletin.
I have been collecting Chick Tracts ever since.
One thing I have recently been dealing with is the "new atheist" wave of books; interestingly, although Chick has covered every other subject under the sun, I don't know of any tracts of his that deal with atheists Per Se...it would be interesting to know if he had anything up his sleeve in that regared.
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