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Although Barack Obama promised equality for the LGBT community, his new gouvernment is defending anti homosexuell laws.

One of Barack Obamas promises when he run for the oval office was more equality for the LGBT community in the United States. Now he is the first man in the country for nearly two years and it seems like nothing changed.

Although more than one court decided that the “don’t ask, don’t tell“  command is unconstitutionally, it still exists. Now is the Obama gouvernment is checking if they can file a protest against the adjudgement. The spokesman told the press, that they want to abolish the “don’t ask, don’t tell” command, but that it’s the Department of Justice’s duty to defend Country Laws against courts.

In 2009 the US Army discharged 428 gays and lesbians without cause; one third less than 2008. Nevertheless homosexueals are still discriminated by the military.

These statistics were published by the Servicemembers Legal Defence Network (SLDN). Since 1993 there is a law “dont ask; dont tell”, which implies that gays and lesbians are just worthy of purposing America, if they conceal their attitude. That leads to huge problems, when homosexuals got to make a secret of their sexuel orientation. But there is a rey of hope. The new president Barack Obama promised that they would get the same rights in army like their heterosexual comrades. This was confirmed by him in his spech a few weeks ago.

US President Barack Obama recently held a speech given to 3,000 activists of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay rights organization in the US, promising to improve gay rights.

In his speech, Obama made quite clear that he will abolish the discrimination of homosexual soldiers in the military (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell or DADT). Over the past 12 years, more than 10,000 men and women have been removed for same-sex attraction. He also said that he would try to remove a statute which defines marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman, known as the Defense of Marriage Act (DOM).

Nice words indeed, but it’s about time something happens. As of today it seems that Barack Obama has no priorities other than health care and the economy. Where is our “fierce advocate”?