Since his inauguration, we have been patiently waiting for President Obama to act on the campaign promises he made to the LGBT community.  It has been almost a year and he has done little to nothing.

While many are hoping that Obama steps up and fulfills his promises in 2010, Newsweek isn’t betting on it:

Although his very presence in the White House is the stuff of culture wars, Obama himself is reluctant to wade into one. Moreover, if socially divisive policies have the potential to compromise his legislative agenda, Obama has proven that he simply won’t pursue them. Expect this tension to become more acute as the 2010 elections loom—and for gay rights to be shunted aside again. The last thing this pragmatist president will do is hand election-year ammunition to an already energized conservative base that’s venomously opposed to gay marriage.

Read the Newsweek post.

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Tags: DADT, Discrimination, DOMA, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, LGBT, Obama Administration