Heckling
OK, let's not mince words.
If, in a democracy, you cannot handle hecklers, you need to find another line of work. Obama got famous because he could endure hecklers with grace.
That being said,
the first amendment does not mean that people cannot consider you a fool if you are rude, and that they cannot hold you accountable.
That being said,
If the Obama administration was not so timid about LGBT rights, they would not be in this mess. We all know that the GOp kept blasting the messages "Supporting Gays means losing elections!" and that many democrats, including Hillary's husband, also kept that message alive. Yes, we might very well have lost the election if Obama was the "agressive advocate" but we also might have won more, by letting the GOP know they will not be able to keep using the damned churches to blow dog whistles!
That being said,
We do not need a playbook to know that the GOP will happily play blacks and gays against each other, and you knwo they are smoking cigars knowing that is exactly what happened. Equality has to work for everyone, and that means, for both b lacks and gays, that you have to work for everyone, even if, and especially if, someone offers you your rights at the expense of others. We know that some conservative black candidates are being tuned up (like Cory Booker) and that some LGBT conservatives (like Glenn Greenwald) are being tuned up so they can fight each other so that no one looks at the wizards behind the curtains.
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