Let people grieve and vent [View All]

Those of us who are heterosexual, or white, Christians or male - in short, the ideal Republican supporters - may have hard time understanding the sense of betrayal and humiliations that our friends at GLBT feel right now, just as we have had hard time understanding similar sentiments from blacks, or women, or Jews, Muslims, etc.

Yes, most of us still trust Obama. We do not regret our vote, we understand that we will not like every decision of his, perhaps even many of his decisions. But we realize that in the grand scheme of things - he is the best man for the job at hand.

So let our GLBT friends mourn, and vent. Let's not tell them to "get over it," or any other offending comments, because, really, we cannot understand these feelings.