His comment was a good general comment.

In this clip at least, the crowd did not seem to fall silent at the mention of gay equality, as reported originally. He did single out the church and African-Americans.

Still, what was the question?

In your article on Friday, you brought up Ken Hutcherson. Not to get too far off track here, but I just thought I'd point out that the whole debacle at Mount Si High School is still going strong. Teachers have been punished, the district has apologized to Hutcherson, and now there is a task force to get teachers fired, disban the GSA, and cancel the upcoming Day of Silence.

If you feel like coming out and heckling some bigots, the next board meeting is this Thursday (7pm at the District Office in Snoqualmie...only 25ish minutes from Seattle!). At the last meeting there were around 200 people, including Hutcherson himself. A few of my teachers spoke as did a couple of classmates...the other side made a strong showing as well.

This next board meeting is really important for us to have some numbers.

mtsiparents.blogspot.com for more info as to what's been going on. Hope to see some people there.

...Oh...and woo-hoo Obama!

I hope this country has grown up enough that this will be a positive for Obama instead of a point of attack.

You *seriously* don't see a negative reaction from the crowd? I'd watch that clip again if I were you. I've never seen a bunch of people look more awkward and uncomfortable. Just check out the faces and reactions of the front rows and they speak volumes about how those people feel about LGBT people.

Kudos to Obama for still saying what he did in front of that crowd.

We would absolutely be having this conversation if the crowd appeared to be mostly white. Black people don't have a patent on homophobia. Any crowd which exhibited this type of reaction when the speaker brings up LGBT issues warrants discussion.

My initial reaction was also that the crowd's lack of reaction didn't mean anything, until I saw this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0L2GEBhd2w

People are standing, clapping, and cheering throughout, and it provides a pretty stark contrast to the video above.

"Blaming gay people for our problems, just like we blame immigrants for our problems or we blame Muslims for our problems - we're not solving problems, all we're doing is dividing each other. That's not the kind of politics I want to practice, all right? All right."

Maybe a few in the audience seemed to begrudgingly accept his point..

Possibly could have been a bit louder? Still quite positive.

We live in a pretty pro-LGBT part of the country here in the NW. Do we really need to be reminded of that?