Reply #199: Because lambasting is so much better [View All]

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I'm under no illusion that I will convince most of the anti-Obama gays on this board to support his candidacy. When people have posted dozens and dozens of times about how outraged they are about McClurkin over the course of five months, I doubt anything I say, no matter how dulcet the tones, will have any effect whatsoever.

I speak out merely to show that there are alternative voices out there who don't need to say the same thing over and over and over in hundreds of threads creating the impression that the entire gay community is just up in arms and angry at Obama.

In addition, when I perceive that the over the top emotional behavior of some threatens the progress to my equality, it's my duty and right to speak out.