posted on April 30, 2009 by DanNation

Obama Shrinks His List of LGBT Commitments on WhiteHouse.gov

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Joe. My. God.: White House Shrinks LGBT Rights Commitments List On Official Site.

One of Joe’s readers tipped him off today as to a reduction in the list of President Obama’s commitments to the LGBT community at the White House web site. Here’s what’s there now. Here’s what was there 101 days ago.

This change brings on many questions that our community should be asking: why the shrinkage? (And I bet it ain’t because of cold water) Is the Swine Flu and the recession bumping other action items to a later time?

I’m curious. I get sick and tired that our community is always at the bottom of every totem pole.

What do you think?

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http://nathanexposed.com Nathan

You’ve gotta be kidding me. When I checked out the new page, I thought I’d stumbled across a broken link.

Some real biggies are missing. Full civil unions? Adoption? HIV Prevention?

Here’s the thing… if he wasn’t going to do them, they shouldn’t have been added. The White House web site has never mentioned our rights, so I wouldn’t have been shocked if they weren’t added in the first place. But now that they have been added, I am disappointed to see them removed. It’s like a double slap in the face.

By the way, I noticed the follow-up on JMG’s blog, stating that the site was “under renovation.” Mmm-hmm. Web sites are what I do for a living. Content does not get published on a site until it is complete. That’s the way it works. You get your copy writers and flesh out the changes, and once everything is done, you publish them.

I find it hard to believe the content managers for the White House would just accidentally post an incomplete page.

Bleh. I hope this gets resolved. It probably won’t until 2012