After all, Barack Obama's record on issues that matter is pretty poor.
Obama is opposed to marriage equality and favors a segregated "separate and unequal" arrangement for gay couples based on his religious beliefs:
Barack Obama said Friday that his Christian beliefs dictate that marriage should be between a man and a woman
We were particularly disappointed that the first African American to represent a major party in a national election would cite his religious beliefs in support of segregation. After all, many segregationists in the Old South cited the Bible to justify racial segregationism as well.
Obama's not just poor on the marriage equality issue. He has repeatedly refused to co-sponsor or support the Uniting American Families Act, or UAFA, which would do nothing other than treat same-sex couples the same as opposite sex couples for immigration purposes.
And Obama's refusal to support a meaningful end to the military's anti-gay policy by co-sponsoring the Military Readiness Enhancement Act is equally appalling.
In short, it is clear that a Barack Obama presidency would represent an ugly era of segregation for LGBT Americans. We would have a president who uses religion to justify public policies that segregate us and drop us into second-class status -- permanently.
That sort of presidency doesn't deserve an endorsement from a gay rights group.
Which brings us to Log Cabin Republicans, who dutifully endorsed their party's choice, John McCain.
John McCain?
The same John McCain who stammered and ummmmmed his way through an interview with Ellen DeGeneres when she pointedly challenged him on his anti-family policies?
The same John McCain who backed a failed anti-gay ballot initiative in his home state, and who has embraced anti-gay bigotry by endorsing California's anti-gay Proposition 8?
The ProtectMarriage.com campaign says it received an e-mail from McCain Thursday in which the Arizona senator expressed his support for the group's efforts "to recognize marriage as a unique institution between a man and a woman."
McCain has previously said that while he does not back banning same-sex marriage at the federal level, he thinks it is appropriate for states to do so.
If there's one candidate whose stance on gay issues is even worse than Obama's execrable apologies for anti-gay animus, it's John McCain.
For Log Cabin to endorse McCain, after their pointed refusal to do so in the case of George Bush in 2004, is particularly disappointing.
In both cases, the partisan LGBT lobbies chose party power politics over the concerns of the LGBT community.
That's why we'd like to remind our friends in the Stonewall Demopublicans and the Log Cabin Republicrats that they are, first and foremost, gay rights organizations.
When they give unearned endorsements to anti-gay candidates, they sell out the LGBT community.
We at Outright take a different tactic. We only give endorsements to those candidates who have earned them -- by embracing an unabashed equal-treatment-under-the-law agenda. When confronted with a candidate who doesn't embrace equality under the law in our own party -- or anywhere else -- we don't endorse him or her.
We're big fans of partisanship. We believe that the Libertarian Party platform is the best approach for LGBT Americans, as well as America in general. We're proud that our party platform has the strongest gay-rights plank of any national party in the USA. And we believe, as we're sure our counterparts at Log Cabin and Stonewall do, that our party is the best choice for governing.
We simply choose to be honest and give credit where credit is due. When confronted with a demand for an endorsement for a candidate who does not embrace equality under the law, Outright Libertarians puts the LGBT community first. We wish that our colleagues in the other parties would learn that sometimes, silence is truly golden.
