John over at Americablog says:
When the White House needs a token homosexual to give them political cover for stabbing gay Americans in the back, there's one name apparently at the top of their list. Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of the Family Equality Council.
Ms. Chrisler has confirmed to the New York Times that she is proudly going to the hastily arranged White House cocktail bash next week, organized after the community uproar over Obama's Justice Department comparing us to incest and pedophilia.
Ironically, and rather hypocritically,
But none of that got Chrisler and the Family Equality Council down. She showed up in the White House last Wednesday to sell our community out and give the president gay cover. And now Chrisler is doing it again.
I'm sure Chisler, as she sips her champagne and eats her fancy French hors d'oeuvres to commemorate the gays and lesbian who rioted for her civil rights 40 years ago, will do her best to hold the president's feet to the fire.
Please.
These people are pathetic. You should see her quotes in the article, how she wasn't satisfied by the "limited benefits" provided for in the memo the president signed last Wednesday. Yeah, real unsatisfied - that's why she stood over him clapping like a giddy schoolkid, providing him the political cover he needed at a time that our community needed her.
I seriously hope someone looks into who the donors are for this apologist organization. No gay person should ever give a dime to the Family Equality Council again. Ever. And the same goes for any other organization that dares to give this White House political cover when the president refuses to even apologize, to even distance himself from that hideous brief.
Note to the Family Equality Council: Last time I checked, shrimp and champagne were not on the gay agenda.
http://www.americablog.com/2009/06/jennifer-chrisler-and-family-equality.htmlAnd Queerty is reporting
Are we missing something here? As the debate rages on as to whether to support, ignore, or boycott the Democratic National Committee's GLBT fundraiser in Washington on Thursday, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network says it plans to attend and give cash to the party. Two days later, SLDN will then lead a protest march "on the White House." Huh?
The SLDN — which represents folks like Dan Choi and, like Queerty, was one of the original critics of the White House while it stood still on Don't Ask Don't Tell, while other organizations defended the president — will send board member and gay Iraq war veteran Brian Fricke to the fundraiser. Fricke says that if Obama doesn't correct the Department of Justice's notoriously vile Defense of Marriage Act briefing, then "there is no case" to defend the president, he tells the Washington Blade.
But: "That being said," Fricke adds, "the DNC’s LGBT Leadership Council is an excellent platform for our community." Yes, he'll be there on June 25.
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This isn't just an instance of mixed messaging to SLDN supporters, the theory goes; it also tells Democrats they can ignore gays but still collect our cash, with the only punishment being a little rally on the White House.
http://www.queerty.com/sldn-will-give-cash-to-dncs-fundraiser-2-days-later-it-will-protest-democrats-20090622/With friends like these . . .