June 29, 2008.
Dear Senator Obama:
It could be that you have a conflict within your supporters over what may be the most important issue, national security.
And it could be that you are only hearing, for instance, the “gay” view from a small, elitist, professional “gays” crowd that do not represent the vast majority of homosexual voters.
I am a homosexual, liberal, Democrat, and I have common sense — I may only know what I read in the newspapers, but what I know is that where Islam controls, they are killing homosexuals.
Therefore, it is clear to me that I must support any war that keeps Sharia law from taking over, any place. I think too many “gays” only read the slick gay publications that ignore our issues and try to sell us expensive cars, clothing and cover only “gay entertainment,” most of which is by non-gays. I see little on the “gay” network, Logo, that helps our community/movement — what I see are old movies.
I’m not saying you should not use these resources, but don’t think you have reached the vast majority of homosexual voters, or our friends,neighbors, families, allies by reading The Advocate.
It is good to get same-sex marriage, but that will be of no value if we allow Muslims to take over our government and impose Sharia law. (Obviously that is true of extremist “Christians” too, including the “religious” preacher person from New Orleans that just lost a lawsuit in Wisconsin where he suggested, in some way, that listeners should shoot homosexuals.) But homosexuals, I say again, are being killed in Islamic countries.
To quibble over whether or not Iraq is worse off now than before is nonsense when we should not be bringing the troops home — the “heterosexual” troops (since our nation still fears homosexuals as much as Islamists, so we are, in theory, not allowed to fight for our country even when we would suffer more under Islamic control than heterosexuals, although women would also) — but sending them to Afghanistan to actually fight the people who attacked us and are still in control makes discussion of when to withdraw, etc., irrelevant.
How to stop sending our money to enemies like Saudi Arabia (for oil) I can’t help you with. But I tell you, national security may hurt you if you only listen to those who want you to be an idealist and ignore reality.
Something these young “gays,” making lots of money running gay organizations don’t know is that our community/movement has succeeded beyond our wildest imagination, because our pioneers did not work for money or power but for their beliefs in change within the system and from one secret organization we grew each decade. What these young people — as young people in all civil rights struggles — need to remember is they started from where we brought them, taking risks they don’t have to. Which, come to think of it, is true of all Americans, who benefit from what the founders of this nation, and subsequent citizens have done to bring us to where we are today as we celebrate another 4th of July.
