HRC has lost its mind: the head of the Human Rights Campaign suggests that gay people really shouldn't criticize Barack Obama because "it's not January 19, 2017." Tens of thousands of gays and lesbians are pouring into Washington D.C. to march because we're upset with Barack Obama. Because we're tired of being told to wait, because we're tired of being told that our issues—our lives—are trivial, because we're tired of shit like this and this and this. And the largest gay rights group in the country announces—two days before the march—that the demonstration somehow illegitimate because it's not January 19, 2017?

WTF, HRC?

Says John...

I like HRC, I've repeatedly defended HRC when others have been far less kind. But this is not the kind of thing a gay civil rights group writes - it's the kind of thing a White House badly in need of political cover writes for you. It's the kind of thing that someone who doesn't have to worry about getting kicked out of the military would write. Someone who doesn't care about getting married. And, it's the kind of thing someone who is more concerned about image and connections would write. It is simply astonishing from an organization that is supposed to be dogging this president to secure our civil rights. You don't telegraph that it's okay for him to wait until 2017 to keep his promises. That is, if he gets re-elected, if we still control the Congress, if we're not having more "distracting" wars, if it's not a close election...