Obama to speak at HRC dinner, will he endorse marriage?

Not unexpectedly, President Obama is speaking again this year at the Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner in Washington, DC on October 1. The big question this year is whether the President will reverse himself (again) and re-endorse marriage equality, something he supported back in 1996 before he decided to run for President.

There's often an impression that HRC gets these presidential dinner visits in return for their obsequious ability to never push the President on the anything (after all, if HRC had its way, we'd have been debating DADT repeal in Congress this year, instead of last, and it would have never passed the Republican House - and it only just passed last December, after it was basically dead in the water).  HRC's approach to politics - which sadly includes going on TV and representing the White House against actual gay rights advocates - very nearly lost us DADT, and it did lose us DOMA and ENDA, even though Democrats controlled the White House, the House and the Senate.

There's still time for HRC to make good by getting the President to endorse marriage equality at their annual dinner on October 1.

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