gay rights revisited (updated)

today there are some interesting articles talking about what I said yesterday.
Check it out: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/opinion/16tue1.html?_r=1

The last paragraph sounds much like what i tried to say yesterday -

The administration has had its hands full with the financial crisis, health care, Guantánamo Bay and other pressing matters. In times like these, issues like repealing the marriage act can seem like a distraction — or a political liability. But busy calendars and political expediency are no excuse for making one group of Americans wait any longer for equal rights.

UPDATE: this is where racism and gay rights converge: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/16/gay-bias-killings-in-us-h_n_216318.html

NEW YORK — A national advocacy group says the number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people killed in bias-motivated incidents increased by 28 percent in 2008 compared to 2007.

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released its report Tuesday. It says last year's 29 killings is the highest it has recorded since 1999. It documented the same number of slayings then.

The New York-based coalition says the overall number of victims who reported gay bias violence in 2008 increased by 2 percent.

The coalition says its figures are more accurate than those from law enforcement agencies. As an example, the group says the FBI doesn't record bias crimes against transgender people because gender identity isn't covered by federal hate-crime law.