Klobuchar criticized for lack of leadership on gay, lesbian issues

Haha, yep. I was there. It was amazing. :D

“Despite our campaign contributions and our overwhelming support for her during the 2006 election, Sen. Klobuchar’s lack of support has put her in the company of Michele Bachamnn, Tim Pawlenty, John Kline and Collin Peterson”

No, it’s extreme rhetoric and exaggeration that put someone in the company of Bachmann.

It is disappointing to see that one of the greatest democratic leaders in our state stands by a clear case of discrimination against the GLBT couples. I know Amy believes in the sanctity of marriage, and to some, especially to the Catholic church, that sanctity means a union between a man and a woman. However, if Amy also so strongly believes in the underlying values of marriage, then why would she not support homosexual couples. We love. We commit to each other. And we want to live together until death does us apart.

My partner and I are one of those binational couples affected by the current immigration laws. We were separated from each other by a distance of 4,000 miles for almost a year and a half. He could not even get a tourist visa to the US. We are still fighting the battle, however seeing Amy not support the UAFA legislation breaks my heart. In fact, her great immigration staff helped my husband return last year for a while. Amy, please don’t abandon us when we disparately need your support!

[...] Wes Davey of Vets for Peace criticized Sen. Amy Klobuchar for not sponsoring a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He and a colleague held up a sign with Klobuchar’s phone number and asked rally-goers to put her number in their cell phones (You can read my report on the criticism of Klobuchar at the Minnesota Independent). [...]

Ideologically I’m more of a Republican, but over the past ten years I have voted for Democrats believing that they would advance civil rights issues, which are more important to me than my own self-interest. The more I see Democrats failing to stand up for gay and lesbian citizens, the less inclined I am to vote for the Democratic party. My view is – Democrats have 7 more months to prove themselves – at that point if they have not passed substantial protections for gays and lesbians, they will have lost my support for the foreseeable future.

Extreme rhetoric and exaggeration?! More like being honest. A-Klo is out of touch with her Minnesota constituents. Franken is doing the work she should have been doing since day one.

Thank you Xavier Lopez-Ayala for speaking out about the
Uniting American Families Act (UAFA and demanding Senators like Amy Klobuchar, who talk the talk about equal rights, get behind this bill and do their work to make sure comprehensive immigration reform is truly comprehensive by including same-sex binational couples. We are a minority within a minority, and perhaps nowhere more than in the hospital visitation realm do LGBT people need full federal equal rights than immigration reform. You can live with a lot of second class treatment, but when it comes to being separated from your partner either through lack of hospital visitation rights or immigration rights the inhumanity in second class status is so very evident. Support our work at http://www.out4immigration.org to help keep loving and committed binational couples, in which one partner is an American citizen, together safely and legally in the US.

I wish Klobuchar would support the UAFA, which will make it possible for same-sex, binational couples to legally reside together in the USA. We are not a huge proportion of Americans, nor Minnesotans, and our impact on the total immigration situation would be minimal. But to people such as me and my partner (in Australia), it would mean not having to choose between our countries and the ones we love. Please, Ms Klobuchar, support UAFA and same-sex immgration rights.

Ms. Klobuchar simply has always been a friend of the GLBT community. I know she will come through again. There must be a logical reason she has not yet come out in support of us yet.

It is a must to vote for Jack Shepard to eliminate Teresa Collett the GOP endorsed candidate because she is so aggressively locally and nationally anti-gay and anti-woman’s free choice, who is she to control others

You better Vote for Jack Shepard to eliminate Teresa Collett -GOP Congressional Primary-Aug 10
If you support
1) If you support the human liberties guaranteed in our constitution including all gay rights
2) If you support a woman right of free choice
3) If you support the Legalization of Medical Marijuana
4) If you support an immediate change in the Criminal Justice System’s direction with a renewed emphasis on ex-offender rehabilitation, instead of the present focus on longer and more costly re-incarnation of non-violent offenders

To eliminate Teresa Collet (GOP endorsed candidate for the 4th CD) before she gets those millions of dollars she has promised to get from Major out of States Lobbies to beat and remove our Betty McCollum for congress in the 4th CD.

Please Vote for Dr. Jack Shepard for the US Congress-4th CD in the GOP Primary to eliminate Teresa Collett who is aggressively anti-gay and aggressively against woman’s free choice on August 10, 2010 before she gets those millions of dollars she has promised to get from Major out of States Lobbies to beat and remove our Betty McCollum for Congress in the 4th CD.
in the Nov. General Election

The only reasonable conclusion is that Amy is a homophobe. Send her a message by electing Bachmann to her seat in 2012. That would teach her a lesson!

Leave it to a closet homophobe to imply Amy being a homophobe therefore electing Michele, a known uber-homophobe, to Amy’s seat to punish Amy for her being homophobic … Really! (*rolling eyes*)

I emailed the Senator’s office regarding her non-response on the resolution to call out the Ugandan Kill-the-Gays bill… no response, no acknowledgment.

The Klob’s record: PATRIOT Act, NSA spy, Iraq war support as well as Afghan war, Yemen war, Somali war, Iran war to be, first in line to bail out banks with no restriction or regulation, last in line to regulate banks, hindered health care bill (including partner visitation), just call her Michelle. No diff.

[...] The Minneapolis City Council and the Family Equality Council are putting pressure on Sen. Amy Klobuchar to support the Uniting American Families Act that would add same-sex couples to immigration reform efforts in the Senate. Last week at OutFront Minnesota’s LGBT Lobby Day at the State Capitol, LGBT leaders criticized Klobuchar for not cosponsoring UAFA or a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. [...]

I think we should all work to see that Amy Klobuchar is defeated when she runs for -re-election. This is outrageous that she would totally ignore the needs of our gay brothers and sisters.

Stay home on election day! That’ll teach her.

Senator Klobuchar has demonstrated no leadership on any relevant GLBT issues. Her silence on a host of topical issues harming this community is stunning. She rides on the hard work of others like Senator Franken showing up for Pride and other events and is more than willing to accept support and cash from this community because the other side of the isle is even worse. She needs to be defeated.