Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama was running a little behind schedule. He had just delivered a speech to the International Association of Fire Fighters at the Hyatt Hotel on Capitol Hill.
Obama’s news hit, if there was to be one, was supposed to be his speech at the union’s presidential forum. But it was his dodging a question tossed at him on his way out of the hotel last week about whether homosexuality was immoral that left his team scrambling to repair relations with an important Democratic constituency, the gay and lesbian community.
Now comes word that the Obama campaign is forming a gay advisory panel, though a spokesman said a plan had been in the works before the dust-up.
Read How Obama, Clinton tripped on gay rights.Obama to form gay advisory panel. by Lynn Sweet ~ The scoop from Washington / Chicago Sun Times ~ March 22, 2007
Good catch. I hadn’t seen this news story. A gay advisory panel! I wonder where and how often they’ll meet?