The DNC is reaching out to LGBT voters, but that job got a lot tougher this week

The Washington Blade's Chris Johnson wrote an article about the DNC's outreach to the LGBT community, noting the speech from the DNC's Executive Director Jennifer O'Malley Dillon to Stonewall Democrats last weekend.

But, there's a big hurdle: Barack Obama. With the exception of the usual apologists, lobbyists and job-seekers, the statements from the White House in the wake of the Prop. 8 decision won't make the DNC's job any easier. Obama's opposition to marriage equality is going to be a HUGE obstacle in the LGBT community. The reelection campaign (which may be run by Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina) probably does not care about that right now, but they will. It's going to be tough to sell "separate, but equal" to people who are demanding nothing less than full equality.

Joe has much more on this over at AMERICAblog Gay.