A Stitch in Haste

Since Barack Obama is, qua politician, a moral defective anyway, I saw little need to weigh in on the latest manifestation of said moral defectiveness — his embracing of an unrepentant anti-gay (worse — "ex-gay") bigot theocrat, Donnie McClurkin, in a vote-seeking pander to the (overwhelmingly anti-gay) black Evangelical base.

Then I came across this gobbledygook by way of another gay blog:

We believe that Barack Obama is constructing a tent big enough for LGBT Americans who know that their sexual orientation is an innate and treasured part of their being, and for African American ministers and citizens who believe that their religion prevents them from fully embracing their gay brothers and sisters. And if we are to confront our shared challenges we have to join together, build on common ground, and engage in a civil dialogue even when we disagree.

To which my response is:

This of course completely evades the question of why I should want to be part of such a tent.

Could you imagine gay-friendly, or even gay-apathetic, Republicans telling gays to embrace a (strictly hypothetical) "inclusive" conservative candidate because that candidate "is constructing a tent big enough for the Log Cabin Republicans and the Westboro Baptist Church"? Of course not.

The only way to rationalize such an indefensible position is via the lingering — and hopefully increasingly invalid — belief that all gays are presumptively Democrats, who all presumptively embrace any and every Democratic candidate, despite any and every "innocent" mistake they may make.

And isn't it ironic that many of these same "cut Obama some slack" Democrat-at-all-costs apologists for McClurkin are undoubtedly the same "no compromise under any circumstances" community-at-all-costs people who damned Barney Frank over his "betrayal" of the transgendered in the ongoing "ENDA-T conundrum"?

One man's "litmus test" is another man's "principled stance." Calling it one in one instance and the other in another instance is every man's "hypocrisy."